Stories of Freedom in Black New York

by Shane White

Book Overview

Stories of Freedom in Black New York recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created a vibrant urban culture. Through exhaustive research, Shane White imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674025784
• ISBN13: 9780674025783
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 8.2"