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Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers
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Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement, and interracial marriage before the Civil War. This book provides fascinating reading for students of American history, labor history, urban history, and black history.
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Index
Abolitionism, 50
African Americans, 18, 25, 32, 39, 55, 66, 86, 113–5, 122–44
African-American Christianity, 59–64, 127
Africans, 32–36
Albany, ix, 9
American Revolution, 4, 10–11, 22, 24, 39, 43–50, 66, 86, 88
Anglican Church, 68, 71
Antony, Jochem, 31
Aptheker, Herbert, 60
Arminians, 34
Bacon’s Rebellion, 23
Baker, John, 143
Baker, Julia, 143
Bakers, 7, 9, 22–24, 55
Bangs, Isaac, 40
Baptism, 37
Barbados, 33, 93–97
Barbers, 136
Barclay, David, 70
Baseball players, 26
Baudelaire, Charles, 100, 108
Beckles, Hilary McD., 93–99
Bell, William H., 133, 136
Bellmen, 7
Ben, 42
Benezet, Anthony, 70
Bennett, Jacob, 7
Benson, Samuel, 7
Bergen County, New Jersey, x, ch. 3
population of, 33, 39, 50–51, 56–57, 67, 85
Berry, John, 33
Betty, 116
Birch, Samuel, 48
Black Brigade, 45, 47, 49, 65, 69, 77–78
Black families, 94–99, 139–40
Black Loyalists, 45–50, 61–63, 65–86, 91
Black Pioneers and Guides, 44, 69, 77–78
Blacks. See African Americans
Black Shot, 78
Blacksmiths, 6, 9, 87, 127
Blanck, Abraham, 7
Blauveldt, Dinar, 45
Bleuke, Margaret, 75
Bleuke, Stephen, 44, 47, 75, 84–85
Blockmakers, 6
Boardinghouse keepers, 125, 127, 138, 143
Bobolink Bob, 55
Booksellers, 6, 125
Booth, Charles, 107
Boston, 9–10, 78
Botein, Stephen, 20
Bowery...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter1 Legal Bonds of Attachment: The Freemanship Law of New York City, 1648–1801
- Chapter2 In Retrospect: Richard B. Morris and Government and Labor in Early America (1946)
- Chapter3 Slavery and Freedom Without Compensation: African Americans in Bergen County, New Jersey, 1660–1860
- Chapter4 Violence and Religion in the Black American Revolution
- Chapter5 Black Revolt in New York City and the Neutral Zone, 1775–1783
- Chapter6 Gabriel’s Republican Revolution
- Chapter7 Reconstructing Black Women’s History in the Caribbean
- Chapter8 Flaneurs, Prostitutes, and Historians: Sexual Commerce and Representation in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis
- Chapter9 The Decline and Fall of Artisan Republicanism in Antebellum New York City: Views from the Street and Workshop
- Chapter10 “Desirable Companions and Lovers”: Irish and African Americans in the Sixth Ward of New York City, 1830–1870.
- Appendix to Chapter 3
- Notes
- Index