Research Catalog

Title

In the shadow of slavery : African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 / Leslie M. Harris.

Author

Harris, Leslie M. (Leslie Maria), 1965-

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In the Shadow of Slavery lays bare 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." "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."--Jacket

Series Statement

Historical studies of urban America

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Historical studies of urban America

Subject

• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• 1600-1865
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History
• Noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > Histoire
• African Americans
• Race relations
• African Americans > New York > History
• Schwarze
• Slavernij
• Zwarten
• New York (N.Y.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• New York (N.Y.) > History > 1775-1865
• New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History
• New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
• New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1775-1865
• New York (N.Y.) > Relations raciales > Histoire
• New York (State) > New York
• United States, New York, New York (City) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• United States, New York, New York (City) > History > 1775-1865
• United States, New York, New York (City) > Minorities
• United States, New York, New York (City) > Slavery and bondage
• New York, NY
• Schwärze
• New York (N.Y.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• New York (N.Y.) > History > 1775-1865

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-362) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Slavery in colonial New York -- ch. 2. The struggle against slavery in Revolutionary and early national New York -- 3. Creating a free Black community in New York during the era of emancipation -- ch. 4. Free but unequal : the limits of emancipation -- ch. 5. Keeping body and soul together : charity workers and Black activism in post-emancipation New York City -- 6. The long shadow of Southern slavery : radical abolitionists and Black political activism against slavery and racism -- ch. 7. "Pressing forward to greater perfection" : radical abolitionists, Black labor, and Black working-class activism after 1840 -- ch. 8. "Rulers of the Five Points" : Blacks, Irish immigrants, and amalgamation -- ch. 9. The failures of the city -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works consulted -- Index.

ISBN

• 0226317749
• 9780226317748
• 9780226317731
• 0226317730

LCCN

2002027144

OCLC

• 50143193
• SCSB-10257636

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library