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Emancipating New York : the politics of slavery and freedom, 1777-1827
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- Creator
- David N. Gellman
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xi, 297 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807134651, 9780807134658, 080713368X, 0807131741, 9780807131749, 9780807133682
- OCLC
- ocm62732583, ocn471131912
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-284) and index.
- 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