Black Bondage in the North

This history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks.

Author: Edgar J. McManus
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 11/01/2001
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.04w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780815628934

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 47

About the Author
Edgar J. McManus is professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of A History of Negro Slavery in New York, also published by Syracuse University Press.