Black and white Manhattan
Subtitle: the history of racial formation in colonial New York City
By: Thelma Wills Foote.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Slavery -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Racism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History
Description: Probing the colonial history of New York City, Thelma Foote examines the broadly shared belief that black slavery and antiblack racism were marginal to the experience of northern colonies in British North America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-320) and index.