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Emancipating New York

The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777--1827

Автор: David N. Gellman

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Louisiana State University Press

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In an innovative blend of cultural and political history, David N. Gellman has written the most comp...

Информация за книгата

Автор

David N. Gellman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2008

страници

312

EAN

9780807133682

ISBN

080713368X

Enbook ID

11528051

Издател

Louisiana State University Press

Теглоt

463

Размери

152 x 229 x 18

Пълно описание

In an innovative blend of cultural and political history, David N. Gellman has written the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York State. Focusing on public opinion, he shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism during the final decades of the eighteenth century as they grappled with the possibility of freeing the state's black population. In 1799, gradual emancipation in New York began-a profound event, Gellman argues. It helped move an entire region of the country toward a historically rare slaveless democracy, creating a wedge in the United States that would ultimately lead to the Civil War. Gellman presents a comprehensive examination of the reasons for and timing of New York's dismantling of slavery. It was the northern state with the greatest number of slaves, more than 20,000 in 1790. Newspapers, pamphlets, legislative journals, and organizational records reveal how whites and blacks, citizens and slaves, activists and politicians, responded to the changing ideologies and evolving political landscape of the early national period and concluded that slavery did not fit with their state's emerging identity. Support for the institution atrophied, and eventually the preponderance of New York's political leaders endorsed gradual abolition. The first book on its subject, "Emancipating New York" provides a fascinating narrative of a citizenry addressing longstanding injustices central to some of the greatest traumas of American history. The debate within the New York public sphere over abolition proved a pivotal contest in the unraveling of worldwide slavery, Gellman shows, and set the stage for intense political conflicts in the nineteenth century.