Regional Studies: African American Studies
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Listing of New York State Subject Books:
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New in paper . . .
Abolition's Axe
Beriah Green, Oneida Institute,
and the Black Freedom Struggle
Milton C. Sernett
"Milton C. Sernett has written a perceptive biography of one of the most devoted, intractable, and ultimately anarchistic of the American abolitionists. . . . Sernett’s explanation of Green’s legacy is sensitive and engrossing; it provides a compelling look at one abolitionist, at least in early life, who lived his egalitarianism and whose efforts at Oneida were a true witness to racial justice."
—David W. Blight, Journal of Church and State
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-3022-0
| 2004
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Black Bondage in the North
Edgar J. McManus
"A thorough, well-documented, scholarly account of the system of slavery in the middle and northern colonies prior to 1810. In the early 19th century [McManus] sees economic displacement allowing an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks. . . . A sound chronicle of slavery in an area whose slave history has not been emphasized. . . . Highly recommended."
— Choice
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-2893-5
| 2001
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Harlem at War
The Black Experience in World War II
Nat Brandt
"A smoothly written narrative of the outrages suffered by blacks while this country was gearing up for and fighting global combat. . . . Mr. Brandt’s book makes the point that the United States wasted time, effort, money and lives trying to preserve the color line while at the same time fighting for the ‘four freedoms’ abroad. We fought for freedom overseas, but not in Alabama, Mississippi or New York."
— The Washington Times
Cloth $29.95
| 0-8156-0324-X
| 1996
Paper $19.95
| 0-8156-0462-9
| 1997
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A History of Negro Slavery in New York
Edgar J. McManus
"McManus unfolds an aspect of slavery unfamiliar in its locale and untraditional in its operation. . . . This work is rewarding for its wealth of fresh findings."
— American Historical Review
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-2894-3
| 2001
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Inventing Black-on-Black Violence
Discourse, Space, and Representation
David Wilson
Mixing memoirs, critical geographical studies, and race theory, this books shows how vulnerable groups of soiety can become pawns in an acute process of racial demonization—and how, in America, this allowed blacks to be marginalized.
Cloth $24.95s
| 0-8156-3080-8
| 2005
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Make a Way Somehow
African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965
Kathryn Grover
"A meticulously researched and fascinating examination of almost 200 years of African American life in Geneva, New York."
— Library Journal
Cloth $45.00L
| 0-8156-2626-6
| 1994
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-2627-4
| 1994
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North Star Country
Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom
Milton C. Sernett
"Drawing on evangelical religious commitment, the movement for the immediate abolition of slavery found some of its strongest backing here. Harriet Tubman, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Henry B. Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore D. Weld, Samuel J. May, William H. Seward, and most of all Frederick Douglass made their homes here. . . . The author’s research is admirably wide-ranging. . . . He has produced a readable narrative of the course of abolition in one of its strongholds. General and academic collections, all levels."
— Choice
Cloth $49.95L
| 0-8156-2914-1
| 2001
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-2915-X
| 2001
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Perfectionist Politics
Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy
Douglas M. Strong
Winner of the Smith/Wynkopp Book Award
"Strong masterfully establishes a clear and specific tie between the revivalism of upstate New York’s ‘burned-over district’ and the abolitionist Liberty Party. . . . Historians of antebellum religion and reform will find much to admire in this brief and clearly written book."
— Religious Studies Review
Cloth $39.95s
| 0-8156-2793-9
| 2001
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-2924-9
| 2001
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Salt City and Its Black Community:
A Sociological Study of Syracuse, New York
S. David Stamps and Miriam Burney Stamps
Employing a conflict theory approach, the authors analyze the effects of black migration north, affirmative action, school integration, urban renewal, deindustrialization, political mobilization, and suburbanization on the growth and development of the black community.
Cloth $29.95s
| 978-0-8156-3180-4
| 2008
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Twenty-two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Freeman
Austin Steward
Edited and with an Introduction by Graham R. Hodges
This book offers insight into the creation of African American community life in upstate New York and into the doomed black utopia of Wilberforce. A critical introduction by historian Graham Hodges affords an in-depth discussion of Steward’s career-rising from enslavement to success as a self-made businessman in upstate New York and as leader of the ill-fated Wilberforce Colony in Ontario, Canada. Hodges also expands upon previous recognition of Steward’s sizable role in free black activism in the antebellum northern states.
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-2721-1
| 2001
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The William Freeman Murder Trial
Insanity, Politics, and Race
Andrew W. Arpey
"Arpey provides thorough details to support his assertions. He takes great care to explain the mechanics of the trial, the ‘feel’ of 19th-century New York and the social outlook of contemporary Americans. He does a commendable job of explaining how a clear understanding of mental illness came to the criminal justice system, despite the primitive state of medicine and misguided theories. . . . In the end, Arpey reminds readers that, for all our progress since 1846, Americans are still highly challenged by the mysteries of the human mind, issues of race and providing a just legal
system."
— The Sunday Gazette
Cloth $24.95
| 0-8156-0791-1
| 2003
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