TY - JOUR
AU - Lévesque, George A.
AB - Book Reviews 1435 Stories of Freedom in Black New York. By Shane sors have exploited this trove of material, and White. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, the results have indeed been beneficial. Today 2002. 260 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-00893-6.) every colony/state and principal metropolis above the Mason-Dixon line has a history (in some cases, several histories) that informs In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in readers about enslavement, emancipation, and New York City, 1626–1863. By Leslie M. Har- ris. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, the struggle for freedom. But no part of the 2003. xii, 380 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-226-31774- northern black experience has been more pop- 9.) ular with historians than that centered in New York, and notably in its principal city of Man- hattan. Two new works, published within a It is commonplace for reviewers of books cen- tered on the black experience in the North to year of each other, attest to historians’ ongoing welcome those contributions that are said to fascination with New York. redress the long-standing imbalance of histor- Leslie M. Harris’s In the Shadow of Slavery ical attention given to bondage and emancipa- and Shane White’s Stories of Freedom in Black tion in 
TI - Stories of Freedom in Black New York. By Shane White. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863. By Leslie M. Haris.
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3660380
DA - 2004-03-01
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SP - 1435
EP - 1436
VL - 90
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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