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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York - Michael J. Douma

The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York

A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700–1827
Buch | Hardcover
298 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-44137-7 (ISBN)
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This book provides a new interpretation of slavery in Dutch New York, revealing its extent and the efforts to block emancipation. An important study that will appeal to scholars interested in slavery and, emancipation, and as well as legal, demographic, and economic history.
Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics, Michael J. Douma shows that slavery in eighteenth-century New York was mostly rural, heavily Dutch, and generally profitable through the cultivation of wheat. Slavery in Dutch New York ultimately died a political death in the nineteenth century, while resistance from enslaved persons, and a gradual turn against slavery in society and in the courts, encouraged its destruction. This important study will reshape the historiography of slavery in the American North.

Michael J. Douma is Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He is also the Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. An interdisciplinary historian, his particular focuses include nineteenth-century US history, the Dutch world, and historical methods. historical philosophy and methodology.

Introduction; 1. The Size, Extent, and Nature of Dutch New York Slavery; 2. The Rural Dutch Slave-Wheat Complex; 3. The Price of Slaves in New York and New Jersey, 1700–1830; 4. Dutch-speaking Runaway Slaves in New York and New Jersey; 5. Sold South? Emancipation by the Numbers in Dutch New York; 6. Dutch Resistance to Emancipation and the Negotiations to End Slavery in New York; 7. Making Sense of the Mild Thesis and the End of Dutch New York Slavery; Appendix – Wheat prices; Appendix – Percent of Slaves NY-born.

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Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 503 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-009-44137-X / 100944137X
ISBN-13 978-1-009-44137-7 / 9781009441377
Zustand Neuware
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