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Liberty's Chain - Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York (Hardcover)
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Liberty's Chain - Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York (Hardcover)
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In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family,
abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions
of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent
founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and
coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and
grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American
Republic. Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about
slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural
president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants,
especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II,
embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause
most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers-and
racist mobs-did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery
and to combat northern injustice. John Jay's personal dealings with
African Americans ranged from callousness to caring. Across the
generations, even as prominent Jays decried human servitude,
enslaved people and formerly enslaved people served in Jay
households. Abbe, Clarinda, Caesar Valentine, Zilpah Montgomery,
and others lived difficult, often isolated, lives that tested their
courage and the Jay family's principles. The personal and the
political intersect in this saga, as Gellman charts American values
transmitted and transformed from the colonial and revolutionary
eras to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond. The Jays, as
well as those who served them, demonstrated the elusiveness and the
vitality of liberty's legacy. This remarkable family story forces
us to grapple with what we mean by patriotism, conservatism, and
radicalism. Their story speaks directly to our own divided times.
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