Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Picador, 2014
- Softcover
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- Titel
- Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
- Autor
- GRISWOLD, MAC
- Verlag
- Picador
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2014
- Zustand
- Very Good
- Einband
- Softcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 1250050200
- ISBN-13
- 9781250050205
In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by hulking boxwoods. When Griswold went inside, she encountered a house full of revelations, including a letter from Thomas Jefferson and-most remarkable and disturbing-what the aged owner, Andrew Fiske, casually called the "slave staircase."
This staircase would reveal the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery, and in 1997 Griswold returned with a team of archaeologists, uncovering a landscape filled with stories. Based on years of research-and voyages that took her as far as West Africa-Griswold has given us both the biography of a place that has witnessed war and reversals in fortune, and the riveting story of the family that has occupied it for three centuries. A fine-grained account and a sweeping drama, The Manor captures American history in all its richness and contradictions.
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