Slavery in the North Forgetting History and Recovering Memory

Name: Slavery in the North Forgetting History and Recovering Memory
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ISBN: 9780812250381

ISBN-10: 0812250389

ISBN-13: 9780812250381

Edition: 2018

Authors: Marc Howard Ross

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In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it housed the enslaved men and women Washington brought to the city as well as serving as the country's first executive office building. Intense controversy erupted over what this newly resurfaced evidence of enslaved people in Philadelphia meant for the site that was next door to the new home for the Liberty Bell. How could slavery best be remembered and memorialized in the birthplace of American freedom? For Marc Howard Ross, this conflict raised…

Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 9/26/2018
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English