For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England - Couverture souple

Di Bonaventura, Allegra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0871407760 ISBN 13 : 9780871407764

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014

Synopsis

In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's classic, A Midwife's Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America's most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary--kept from 1711 until 1758--reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England's history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Allegra di Bonaventura is the associate dean for graduate academic support at Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She received a PhD from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School. She is the author of For Adam's Sake, which was awarded the New England Historical Association James P. Hanlan Book Award and named one of the best books of 2013 by the Wall Street Journal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871407760
• ISBN 13: 9780871407764
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
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• Personne responsable: non disponible