Comprehensive account of slavery in New York State -- long thought to be a bastion of the antislavery movement -- from the importation of blacks in the seventeenth century until its abolition 1841.

The first comprehensive history of criminal law in early New England

This history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks.