Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-century New York City by Carla L. Peterson

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-century New York City

Carla L. Peterson

446 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Black Gotham challenges many of the accepted "truths" about African-American history, including the assumption that the phrase "nineteenth-century black Americans" means enslaved people, that "New York state before the Civil War" refers to a place...

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