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Slavery/antislavery in New England / editor Peter Benes ; associate editor Jane Montague Benes.

Van Pelt Library E445.N5 S55 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (28th : 2003 : Deerfield, Mass.)
Contributor:
Benes, Peter.
Benes, Jane Montague.
Series:
Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; 2003.
Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Slavery--New England--History.
Slavery.
Indians of North America--New England--History.
Indians of North America.
History.
New England.
Physical Description:
184 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
Other Title:
Slavery antislavery in New England
Place of Publication:
Boston, Mass. : Boston University, [2005]
Contents:
Slavery in Boston households, 1647-1770 / Peter Benes
"Sold to Mayntence a bastard": Sylvannus Warro's story / M. Michelle Jarrett Morris
From goddess of love to unloved wife: naming slaves and redeeming masters in eighteenth-century New England / Richard A. Bailey
Pauper apprenticeship in Narragansett country: a different name for slavery in early New England / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau
"That the name of slave may not more be heard": the New Hampshire petition for freedom, 1779 / Valerie Cunningham
The anti-man-hunting league: "kidnapping" the slave hunter / Jennifer S. Alpert
Radical reform in public sentiment: Lydia Dixon and the Dover, New Hampshire, Ladies' Antislavery Society / Jody R. Fernald
Enslavement, freedom, possibility, and poverty: four generations of Quash Gomer's family in Connecticut, 1748-1864 / Diane Cameron
Calvin T. Swan, African-American carpenter in rural Massachusetts / Elizabeth A. Congdon
Freedom in the archives: the pension case of Primus Hall / Margot Minardi
"The black first": Crispus Attucks and William Cooper Nell / Tavia Nyong'o
"One night only!": blackface minstrelsy in nineteenth-century Northampton, Massachusetts / Stephanie Dunson.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178).
OCLC:
62353387

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