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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0945612516 ISBN 13: 9780945612513

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Graham Russell Hodges is Professor of History at Colgate University in upstate New York. He is the editor of Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White, published by Madison House, and author of The New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0945612516
• ISBN 13: 9780945612513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256