For Adam's Sake A Family Saga in Colonial New England

Name: For Adam's Sake A Family Saga in Colonial New England
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ISBN: 9780871407764

ISBN-10: 0871407760

ISBN-13: 9780871407764

Edition: N/A

Authors: Allegra Di Bonaventura

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 4/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.31" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English