Emancipating New York : the politics of slavery and freedom, 1777-1827

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Author

Gellman, David Nathaniel.

Title

Emancipating New York : the politics of slavery and freedom, 1777-1827 / David N. Gellman.

ISBN

0807131741 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780807131749 (cloth : alk. paper)

Published

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

Physical Description

xi, 297 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Format

Books

Language

English

Added to Catalog

April 12, 2007

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

No exit. Labor, law, and resistance in the eighteenth century ; Unfinished revolutions

Identities. 1785 : the road not taken ; Containing slavery : the Manumission Society and the law, 1785-92 ; Pirates, sugar, debtors, and Federalists : the paradoxes of antislavery political economy ; Race, citizenship, sentiment, and the construction of an antislavery public sphere ; Slavery and the politics of upheaval : the 1790s ; Ambiguous victory : gradual abolition becomes law

Reflections. Freedom, slavery, memory, and modernity, 1800-27

Epilogue : inescapable.

Subjects

Antislavery movements > New York (State) > History.

Enslaved persons > Emancipation > New York (State)

Slavery > New York (State) > History.

Abolitionists > New York (State) > Political activity.

New York (State) > Politics and government > 1775-1865.

New York (State) > Race relations.

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https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b654648

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