Black Gotham : a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City / Carla L. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Carla L., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White, Philip, 1823-1891.

White, Philip.

Guigon, Peter, 1813-1885.

Guigon, Peter.

Peterson, Carla L., 1944---Family.

Peterson, Carla L.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--19th century.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--History--19th century.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Peterson, Carla L., 1944-.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Families.

Social conditions.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 446 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011.

Summary:

Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period.

Contents:

Family, memory, history

Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. Collect Street : circa 1819 ; The Mulberry Street School : circa 1828 ; The young graduates : circa 1834 ; Community building : circa 1840 ; A Black aristocracy : circa 1847 ; Whimsy and resistance : circa 1853 ; The Draft Riots : July 1863 ; Union and disunion : circa 1864

Brooklyn, 1865-1895. Peter Guignon's private wars : circa 1862 ; Philip White in Brooklyn : circa 1875 ; New women, new men at century's end

Commemorations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-429) and index.

ISBN:

9780300162554

0300162553

9780300181746

0300181744

OCLC:

664840167