Black Bondage in the North - Paperback

by Edgar J. McManus (Author)

This history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks.

Author Biography

Edgar J. McManus is professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of A History of Negro Slavery in New York, also published by Syracuse University Press.