LEADER 04145nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910824978303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-09613-7 010 $a9786613096135 010 $a0-300-16409-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300164091 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079625 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050151 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467302 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284444 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467302 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10489831 035 $a(PQKB)10431795 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420652 035 $a(DE-B1597)485954 035 $a(OCoLC)707082775 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300164091 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079625 100 $a20100920d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack Gotham $ea family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City /$fCarla L. Peterson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven, Conn. $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-16255-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on Language --$tPrologue Family, Memory, History --$tChapter One: Collect Street: Circa 1819 --$tChapter Two: The Mulberry Street School: Circa 1828 --$tChapter Three: The Young Graduates: Circa 1834 --$tChapter Four: Community Building: Circa 1840 --$tChapter Five: A Black Aristocracy: Circa 1847 --$tChapter Six: Whimsy and Resistance: Circa 1853 --$tChapter Seven: The Draft Riots: July 1863 --$tChapter Eight: Union and Disunion: Circa 1864 --$tChapter Nine: Peter Guignon's Private Wars: Circa 1862 --$tChapter Ten: Philip White in Brooklyn: Circa 1875 --$tChapter Eleven: New Women, New Men at Century's End --$tEpilogue Commemorations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aPart detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City.Black Gotham challenges many of the accepted "truths" about African-American history, including the assumption that the phrase "nineteenth-century black Americans" means enslaved people, that "New York state before the Civil War" refers to a place of freedom, and that a black elite did not exist until the twentieth century. Beginning her story in the 1820s, Peterson focuses on the pupils of the Mulberry Street School, the graduates of which went on to become eminent African-American leaders. She traces their political activities as well as their many achievements in trade, business, and the professions against the backdrop of the expansion of scientific racism, the trauma of the Civil War draft riots, and the rise of Jim Crow.Told in a vivid, fast-paced style, Black Gotham is an important account of the rarely acknowledged achievements of nineteenth-century African Americans and brings to the forefront a vital yet forgotten part of American history and culture. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocial conditions$y19th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century 615 0$aAfrican Americans 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.896/0730747 700 $aPeterson$b Carla L.$f1944-$01665095 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824978303321 996 $aBlack Gotham$94023536 997 $aUNINA