Slavery and freedom in the rural North : African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865
Graham Russell Hodges (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 1997
Madison House, Madison, Wisconsin, 1997