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Black Yankees : the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England
Title
Black Yankees : the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England / William D. Piersen.
ISBN
0870235869
9780870235863
0870235877
9780870235870
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1988]
Copyright Notice Date
©1988
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : map
Local Notes
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Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Summary
"This book ... is not so much a history of slavery in the Northeast as it is a historical study of the building of American culture ... "The geographical scope of this study is nominally 'New England, ' but areas encompassing the present states of Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire (excluding Rockingham County) receive scant attention because in the 1700s these areas lacked significant black populations. ... the areas of greatest attention--Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts ... "Introduction., p. [ix], xi.
Variant and related titles
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2023
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-223) and index.
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