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In the Shadow of Slavery - African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (Hardcover)
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In the Shadow of Slavery - African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
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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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