"Ten Hills Farm" tells the powerful saga of five generations of
slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John
Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of
Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and
lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and
passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. In this
mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fates of the
land and the families that lived on it were bound to America's most
tragic and tainted legacy. Challenging received ideas about America
and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story
of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to
recovery.
Manegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth
to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the
South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John
Winthrop, famous for envisioning his "city on the hill" and lauded
as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the
first law in North America condoning slavery. Each successive owner
of Ten Hills Farm--from John Usher, who was born into money, to
Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter's son and made his
fortune in Antigua--would depend upon slavery's profits until the
1780s, when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time, the land
became a city, its questionable past discreetly buried, until
now.
Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic
world, "Ten Hills Farm" digs deep to bring the story of slavery in
the North full circle--from concealment to recovery.
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