PDF The Slave Question: Liberty and Property in South Africa by R. L. Watson in History

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Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources―census data; tax lists; city directories; diaries; newspapers and magazines; and courtroom testimony―to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic periods. White explores; among many things; the demography of slavery; the decline of the institution during and after the Revolution; racial attitudes; acculturation; and free blacks' "creative adaptation to an often hostile world."