The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

by Mac Griswold

Book Overview

Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister--and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374266298
• ISBN13: 9780374266295
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"