Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 - Softcover

White, Shane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820317861 ISBN 13: 9780820317861

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Book by White, Shane

About this title

About the Author:

Shane White is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Review:

"White has written the most comprehensive account now available of the abolition of slavery in New York City. His most striking findings, however, concern not the process of emancipation but the extent of New York's involvement with slavery in the colonial and revolutionary periods."—The Nation

"Provocative and well-argued, it challenges us to rethink the whole nature of northern slavery and the emancipation process."—American Historical Review

"This gracefully written work is a significant contribution to social history, New York City history, and most of all, African-American history."—Journal of Social History

"Shane White begins his book by asking what it meant to be black and living in the New York area as slavery ended, but by the time he finishes, we have learned more about the demise of bondage in an economically changing city than about being African American . . . Overall, this is a fine first book, suggestive, strong on demographic detail, and imaginative in reconstructing black life from fragments of evidence; its underlying vision of individual struggle may also indicate the shifting political ground of our own times as well."—Journal of American History

"An excellent addition to the extraordinarily rich literature about American slavery and emancipation. . . . A work of excellence and enduring scholarly value"—Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

"The most exhaustive and illuminating local study of slavery and black culture in the North to appear in recent years. . . . This is an important work that maps new contours of the African American experience."—Choice

"White's exact, well-written, and modulated monograph is the finest study to date of an important subject. . . . His book is an eloquent , unromantic account of the creativity and stamina of thousands of American slaves and ex-slaves whom historians have ignored for far too long."—Journal of Interdisciplinary History

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0820317861
• ISBN 13: 9780820317861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312