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In the Shadow of Slavery (Paperback, New edition)
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In the Shadow of Slavery (Paperback, New edition)
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The black experience in the antebellum South has been thoroughly
documented. But histories set in the North are few. In the Shadow
of Slavery, then, is a big and ambitious book, one in which
insights about race and class in New York City abound. Leslie
Harris has masterfully brought more than two centuries of African
American history back to life in this illuminating new work.--David
Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness In 1991 in lower
Manhattan, a team of construction workers made an astonishing
discovery. Just two blocks from City Hall, under twenty feet of
asphalt, concrete, and rubble, lay the remains of an
eighteenth-century Negro Burial Ground. Closed in 1790 and covered
over by roads and buildings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, the site turned out to be the largest such find in North
America, containing the remains of as many as 20,000 African
Americans. The graves revealed to New Yorkers and the nation an
aspect of American history long hidden: the vast number of enslaved
blacks who labored to create our nation's largest city. In the
Shadow of Slavery lays bare this history of African Americans in
New York City, starting with the arrival of the first slaves in
1626, moving through the turbulent years before emancipation in
1827, and culminating in one of the most terrifying displays of
racism in U.S. history, the New York City Draft Riots of 1863.
Drawing on extensive travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers,
literature, and organizational records, Leslie M. Harris extends
beyond prior studies of racial discrimination by tracing the
undeniable impact of African Americans on class, politics, and
community formation and by offering vivid portraits of the lives
and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. Written with
clarity and grace, In the Shadow of Slavery is an ambitious new
work that will prove indispensable to historians of the African
American experience, as well as anyone interested in the history of
New York City.
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