Somewhat More Independent

Somewhat More Independent
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780820343624
ISBN-13 : 0820343625
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Book Synopsis Somewhat More Independent by : Shane White

Download or read book Somewhat More Independent written by Shane White and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 institution during and after the Revolution, racial attitudes, acculturation, and free blacks' "creative adaptation to an often hostile world."


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