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Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative,Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City.

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 of freedom, and that a black elite did not exist until the twentieth century. Carla L. Peterson is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of"Doers of the Word": African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North, 1830-1880.

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Paperback)

By Carla L. Peterson

$20.00

ISBN-13: 9780300181746
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Published: Yale University Press, 2/2012

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