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A "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title (2004)
"With so many document collections aimed at teaching scholars
and students about slavery and race relations in the
nineteenth-century South, it is refreshing and enlightening to read
a collection that reminds us of the northern side of the
story."
--Michael Vorenberg, author of "Final Freedom"
"Gellman and Quigley provide a unique perspective. While
invaluable for scholars of slavery and NYC, most importantly,
students will find an invaluable window onto democracy's history in
the US."
--"Choice"
"It would require a tremendous amount of time and expense to
collect all the primary source material the authors have assembled
and reprinted in this book. This in and of itself makes it a
valuable resource for researchers."
--"New York History"
"The documents (the editors) have assembled give us many voices,
both white and black. Among whites there are pioneers, men of very
good will and demagogues worthy of Jim Crow Mississippi. The black
voices they present are not the predictable Frederick Douglass and,
perhaps, Henry Highland Garnet. Without asserting the point, they
demonstrate that many black people were trying to speak for
themselves."
--"Slavery and Abolition"
In 1821, New York's political leaders met for over two months to
rewrite the state's constitution. The new document secured the
right to vote for the great mass of white men while denying all but
the wealthiest African-American men access to the polls.
Jim Crow New York introduces students and scholars alike to this
watershed event in American political life. This action
crystallized theparadoxes of free black citizenship, not only in
the North but throughout the nation: African Americans living in
New York would no longer be slaves. But would they be citizens?
Jim Crow New York provides readers with both scholarly analysis
and access to a series of extraordinary documents, including
extensive excerpts from the resonant speeches made at New York's
1821 constitutional convention and additional documents which
recover a diversity of voices, from lawmakers to African-American
community leaders, from newspaper editors to activists. The text is
further enhanced by extensive introductory essays and headnotes,
maps, illustrations, and a detailed bibliographic essay.
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