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  • - The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810
    by Shane White
    £29.99

    Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources - census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and courtroom testimony - to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic periods.

  • - The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    by Shane White
    £10.99

    The amazing and forgotten story of Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York.

  • by Shane White
    £22.49

    This book re-creates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created a vibrant urban culture.

  • - African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
    by Graham White & Shane White
    £26.49 - 44.49

    For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presented their bodies in culturally distinctive ways. Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper...

  • - Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
    by Shane White
    £28.99

    The phrase 'Harlem in the 1920s' evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. This title reveals a different dimension of African American culture that made not only Harlem but New York City itself the vibrant and energizing metropolis it was.

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