Black Gotham [electronic resource] : a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City / Carla L. Peterson.
2011
F130.N4 P47 2011eb
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Black Gotham [electronic resource] : a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City / Carla L. Peterson.
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9780300164091 (electronic book)
0300162553
9780300162554
0300162553
9780300162554
Publication Details
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2011.
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English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 446 p.) : ill., map
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F130.N4 P47 2011eb
Summary
Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Family, memory, history
Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. Collect Street : circa 1819 ; The Mulberry Street School : circa 1828 ; The young graduates : circa 1834 ; Community building : circa 1840 ; A Black aristocracy : circa 1847 ; Whimsy and resistance : circa 1853 ; The Draft Riots : July 1863 ; Union and disunion : circa 1864
Brooklyn, 1865-1895. Peter Guignon's private wars : circa 1862 ; Philip White in Brooklyn : circa 1875 ; New women, new men at century's end
Commemorations.
Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. Collect Street : circa 1819 ; The Mulberry Street School : circa 1828 ; The young graduates : circa 1834 ; Community building : circa 1840 ; A Black aristocracy : circa 1847 ; Whimsy and resistance : circa 1853 ; The Draft Riots : July 1863 ; Union and disunion : circa 1864
Brooklyn, 1865-1895. Peter Guignon's private wars : circa 1862 ; Philip White in Brooklyn : circa 1875 ; New women, new men at century's end
Commemorations.