Showing Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 by Shane White
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Somewhat More Independent Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources--census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and courtroom testimony--to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic periods. White explores, among many things, the demography of slavery, the decline of the institut... Full description