In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York CityNYU Press, 1 Feb 2002 - 358 halaman Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuries |
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... liberty. The governor freed the African men and their wives under a set of harsh restrictions that included annual tributes and West India's continued ownership of their children. Within three years, five men and one woman acquired land ...
... liberty and justice. In Kings County, which included the town of Brooklyn, African bondspeople were one-third of the population, and more than 60 percent of all white families held at least one person in bondage. To control the enslaved ...
... Liberty allowed to Negro and other Slaves.” To keep bondspeople from accumulating cash and to reduce their “Mischiefs,” the lawmakers forbade trade with enslaved Africans without the permission of their respective owners. They then ...
... liberty under British decree. In the quartermaster's department most of the drivers were runaways. Fugitives provided a healthy supply of labor for the English, to the consternation of many white New Yorkers. A full century later, New ...
... Liberty & equality[,] a christian country[,] when almost every part of it abounds with slavery and oppression,” chided Hamilton, a central actor in the disconnection of New York's black Christians.15 The Africans' stride toward ...
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II African Voluntary Associations and the Making of the Public Sphere
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III The Transformation of African American Voluntarism | 179 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Index | 311 |
About the Author | 333 |
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