Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 - Softcover

Russell, Graham

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ISBN 10: 0945612516 ISBN 13: 9780945612513

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997

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This unique social history, focusing on a single community in eastern New jersey, addresses many long-held assumptions about slavery and emancipation outside the plantation South.

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Graham Russell Hodges

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Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Hodges examines the experience of slavery and freedom in the rural north. This unique social history addresses many long held assumptions about the experience of slavery and emancipation outside the south. For example, by tracing the process by which whites maintained "a durable architecture of oppression" and a rigid racial hierarchy, it challenges the notions that slavery was milder and that racial boundaries were more permeable in the north. Monmouth County, New Jersey, because of its rich African American heritage and equally well-preserved historical record, provides an outstanding opportunity to study the rural life of an entire community over the course of two centuries. Hodges weaves an intricate pattern of life and death, work and worship, from the earliest settlement to the end of the Civil War.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0945612516
• ISBN 13: 9780945612513
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland