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Root and Branch : African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863

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On this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the coming of the primary African–a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613–to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Right through, he explores the intertwined themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion, and resistance that shaped black life within the region through two and a half centuries.

Hodges chronicles the lives of the primary free black settlers within the Dutch-ruled city, the gradual slide into enslavement after the British takeover, the fierce era of slavery, and the painfully slow process of emancipation. He will pay particular attention to the black religious enjoy in all its complexity and to the colourful slave culture that was once shaped at the streets and within the taverns. Together, Hodges shows, these two potent forces helped fuel the long and arduous pilgrimage to liberty.

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