数量vi, 403 p., [16] p. of plates : ; 21 cm.
寄与者edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie Harris.
一般注記Introduction : uncovering, discovering, and recovering: digging in New York's slave past beyond the African burial ground / Ira Berlin, Leslie M. Harris -- World of possibilities : slavery and freedom in Dutch New Amsterdam / Christopher Moore -- Tightening vise : slavery and freedom in British New York / Jill Lepore -- Liberty and constraint : the limits of revolution / Graham Hodges -- Long death of slavery / Patrick Rael -- Black life in freedom : creating a popular culture / Shane White -- Black life in freedom : creating elite culture / Carla Peterson -- Black life in freedom : creating a civic culture / Craig Steven Wilder -- Black abolitionism : the assault on southern slavery and the struggle for racial equality / Manisha Sinha -- Southern slavery in a free city : economy, politics, and culture / David Quigley -- Securing freedom : the challenges of Black life in Civil War New York / Iver Bernstein -- Recreating Black New York at century's end / Marcy Sacks.
"Published in conjuncture with the New-York Historical Society."