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- W2067702989 abstract "Black Gotham is a rich and nuanced study of the African American elite in nineteenth-century New York viewed through the interpretive lens of family history. Carla L. Peterson draws on the lives of her own ancestors to uncover, interrogate, and document the experiences of the hidden history of New York’s black elite in the antebellum and early postbellum eras. It is undoubtedly a unique strategy, blending archival research and historical narrative with personal insight and family oral history. It is, as Peterson describes, “not exactly a family memoir but neither is it traditional social history. It is a narrative that lies somewhere in between” (p. 6). Indeed, and the result is a dynamic, entertaining, and well-researched book that makes a profound contribution to our understanding of African Americans in the antebellum North. Peterson’s training in literature is evident throughout, including in her references to novels such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and in her rich prose and engaging storytelling. Even so, Peterson makes clear that her goal is to challenge several erroneous historical assumptions about the antebellum North. First, she seeks to place free black people (not just slaves) at the center of our conception of African Americans in the nineteenth century. In addition, she emphasizes the continuation of slavery and various forms of “unfreedom” in New York State during this period, while simultaneously showing the complexity of the “black community.” As she explains, black New Yorkers were not a monolithic group; rather, they were culturally distinct from one another and there were clearly demarcated class lines among African Americans. Ultimately, she concludes that the emergence of the “black elite” did not occur in the twentieth century but much earlier." @default.
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- W2067702989 title "Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York" @default.
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