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Emancipating New York
The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827 David
N. Gellman
Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic
World
R.J.M. Blackett and James Brewer Stewart, Series Editors
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978-0-8071-3368-2 PAPER
978-0-8071-3174-9
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312 |
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6 x 9 |
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August 2008 |
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An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating
New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition
of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David
N. Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and
determined activism during the final decades of the eighteenth
century as they grappled with the possibility of freeing the
state's black population. The gradual emancipation that began
in New York in 1799 helped move an entire region of the country
toward a historically rare slaveless democracy, creating a wedge
in the United States that would ultimately lead to the Civil
War. Gellman's comprehensive examination of the reasons for
and timing of New York's dismantling of slavery provides a fascinating
narrative of a citizenry addressing longstanding injustices
central to some of the greatest traumas of American history.
David N. Gellman is coeditor of Jim Crow New York:
A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777–1877
and associate professor of history at DePauw University in
Greencastle, Indiana. |
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