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Ten hills farm : the forgotten history of slavery in the north /

"Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers, to the Royall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manegold, C. S. (Catherine S.), 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The Puritan
  • The land
  • Ten Hills Farm
  • Possession
  • pt. 2. The immigrant
  • The king's forester
  • Favors to the few
  • Happy instruments to enlarge our dominions
  • Slavers of the North
  • Come up in the night with them
  • You may own negroes and negresses
  • pt. 3. The master
  • Antigua
  • Crime, punishment, and compensation
  • Homecoming
  • The benefactor
  • Luxury on the grandest scale
  • pt. 4. The petitioner
  • We shall not be slaves
  • Within the bowels of a free country
  • Death is not the worst of evils
  • Reparations
  • pt. 5. The legacy
  • City upon a hill
  • Afterword : Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008.