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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456697903321

Autore

Manegold C. S (Catherine S.), <1955->

Titolo

Ten hills farm [[electronic resource] ] : the forgotten history of slavery in the north / / C.S. Manegold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-51918-6

1-282-45868-X

9786612458682

9786613831637

1-4008-3209-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

306.3620974

974.4/03

Soggetti

Slaveholders - Massachusetts - History

Electronic books.

Ten Hills Farm (Mass.) History

Massachusetts History

Massachusetts Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Letter from Antigua; PART I: THE PURITAN; 1 The Land; 2 Ten Hills Farm; 3 Possession; PART II: THE IMMIGRANT; 4 The King's Forester; 5 Favors to the Few; 6 Happy Instruments to Enlarge Our Dominions; 7 Slavers of the North; 8 Come Up in the Night with Them; 9 You May Own Negroes and Negresses; PART III: THE MASTER; 10 Antigua; 11 Crime, Punishment, and Compensation; 12 Homecoming; 13 The Benefactor; 14 Luxury on the Grandest Scale; PART IV: THE PETITIONER; 15 We Shall Not Be Slaves; 16 Within the Bowels of a Free Country; 17 Death Is Not the Worst of Evils; 18 Reparations

PART V: THE LEGACY19 City upon a Hill; Afterword: Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008; Note to Readers; Notes on Sources; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W



Sommario/riassunto

Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. In this mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fates of the land and the families that lived on it were bound to America's most