Ten hills farm [[electronic resource] ] : the forgotten history of slavery in the north / / C.S. Manegold
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| Autore: |
Manegold C. S (Catherine S.), <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Ten hills farm [[electronic resource] ] : the forgotten history of slavery in the north / / C.S. Manegold
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| Pubblicazione: | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.3620974 |
| 974.4/03 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Slaveholders - Massachusetts - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | Ten Hills Farm (Mass.) History |
| Massachusetts History | |
| Massachusetts Social conditions | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ten hills farm |
| ISBN: | 1-283-51918-6 |
| 1-282-45868-X | |
| 9786612458682 | |
| 9786613831637 | |
| 1-4008-3209-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456697903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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