Black Yankees
Subtitle: the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England
By: William D. Piersen.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Amherst
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: African Americans  -- New England  -- History  -- 18th century.; New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Description: "This book ... is not so much a history of slavery in the Northeast as it is a historical study of the building of American culture .... "The geographical scope of this study is nominally 'New England,' but areas encompassing the present states of Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire (excluding Rockingham County) receive scant attention because in the 1700s these areas lacked significant black populations. ... the areas of greatest attention--Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts ..."Introd., p. [ix], xi.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [177]-223.