The African presence in lower Manhattan, 1613-1863 (a topical reading list).Required Texts: Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , 1626-1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including , 2003. White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810. Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a publishing house and is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Founded in 1938, the UGA Press is a division of the University of Georgia and is located on the campus in Athens, Georgia, USA. , 1991. WEEK ONE Introduction Supplementary Readings Ira Berlin, "Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America," American Historical Review The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA), a body of academics, professors, teachers, students, historians, curators and others, founded in 1884 "for the promotion of historical studies, the LXXXV (February 1980): 44-78. Sharon Block and Kathleen M. Brown, "Clio in Search of Eros: Redefining Sexualities in Early America;" Kirsten Fischer and Jennifer Morgan, "Sex, Race, and the Colonial Project;" Michael L. Wilson, "Thoughts on the History of Sexuality," William and Mary Noun 1. William and Mary - joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II Quarterly 60 (January 2003): 5-12; 193-198. Kathleen Brown, "Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670," in Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina. External link
Barbara Jeanne Fields, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, ," New Left Review 181 (May/June 1990): 95-118. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, "African American Women's History and the Metalanguage A language used to describe another language. 1. metalanguage - [theorem proving] A language in which proofs are manipulated and tactics are programmed, as opposed to the logic itself (the "object language"). of Race," Signs 17 (1992): 251-274. Shane White and Graham White, "Every Grain is Standing for Itself': African American Style in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Australian Cultural History 13 (1994): 111-128. WEEK TWO Atlantic World Supplementary Readings Ira Berlin, "From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America," William and Mary Quarterly LIII (April 1996): 251-288. John Thornton, "The Birth of the Atlantic World," "The Development of Commerce Between Europeans and Africans," "Slavery and African Social Structure," "The Process of Enslavement en·slave tr.v. en·slaved, en·slav·ing, en·slaves To make into or as if into a slave. en·slave  ment n. and the Slave Trade slave tradeCapturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan ," (Chapters 1-4) in Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World 1400-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). , 1998). John Thornton, "Cannibals, Witches, and Slave Traders in the Atlantic World," William and Mary Quarterly 60 (April 2003): 273-294. WEEK THREE New York City Leslie M. Harris, Chapter 1, "Slavery in Colonial New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ," in In the Shadow of Slavery (Text) Shane White, Chapter 1, "Slavery in New York City," in Somewhat More Independent (Text). Supplementary Reading Graham Russell Hodges, Chapter 1, "Free People and Slaves 1613-1664," in Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey (1999). WEEK FOUR Slave Revolts Supplementary Readings Thelma Wills Foote, ""Some Hard Usage": The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712," New York Folklore XVIII (2000): 147-159. Gerald W. Mullin, excerpts, Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in 18th Century Virginia (NY: Oxford University Press, 1992). Walter Rucker, "Conjure, Magic, and Power: The Influence of Afro-Atlantic Religious Practices on Slave Resistance and Rebellion," Journal of Black Studies 32 (September 2001): 84-103. John Thornton, "African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion," American Historical Review 96 (1991): 1101-13. WEEK FIVE Runaways Shane White, Chapter 5, "Running Away," in Somewhat More Independent (Text). Supplementary Reading David Waldstreicher, "Reading the Runaways: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture, and Confidence in Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic," William and Mary Quarterly LVI (April 1999): 243-272. Jennifer Rae Greeson, "The "Mysteries and Miseries" of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. : New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," American Literature 73 (2001): 277-309. WEEK SIX Revolution and Emancipation Leslie M. Harris, Chapter 2, "The Struggle against Slavery in Revolutionary and Early National New York," in In the Shadow of Slavery (Text). Supplementary Readings: Christopher L. Brown, "Empire Without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 56 (April 1999): 273-306. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Reiker, "The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century," Journal of Historical Sociology 3 (September 1990): 225-252. Gary Nash, "Forging Freedom: The Emancipation Experience in the Northern Seaport Cities, 1775-1820," in Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman eds., Slavery and Freedom in the Age of American Revolution (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 3-48. WEEK SEVEN Life and Work in the New Nation Leslie M. Harris, Chapter 3, "Creating a Free Black Community in New York city during the Era of Emancipation," in In the Shadow of Slavery (Text). Shane White, Chapter 6, "Free Blacks," in Somewhat More Independent (Text). Supplementary Readings: W. Jeffrey Bolster, "An Inner Diaspora: Black Sailors Making Selves," in Ron Hoffman, Michal Sobel and Fredrika Teute eds., Through a Glass Darkly Through A Glass Darkly is an abbreviated form of a much-quoted phrase from the Christian New Testament in 1 Corinthians 13. The phrase is interpreted to mean that humans have an imperfect perception of reality[1]. : Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). (CP) Paul A. Gilje and Howard Rock, "'Sweep O! Sweep O!': African American Chimney Sweeps and Citizenship in the New Nation," William and Mary Quarterly 51 (July 1994): 507-538. (CP) WEEK EIGHT Black Activism in Post-Emancipation New York Leslie M. Harris, Chapter 5, "Keeping Body and Soul Together: Charity Workers and Black Activism in Post-Emancipation New York City," in In the Shadow of Slavery (Text). Supplementary Readings: Mia Bay, ""Of One Blood God Created All the Nations of Men": African-Americans Respond to the Rise of Ideological Racism, 1789-1830," in The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 (2000): 13-37. (CP) Nell Irvin Painter Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian and the current President of the Organization of American Historians. , "Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth's Knowing and Becoming Known," Journal of American History The Journal of American History (sometimes abbreviated as JAH), is the official journal of the Organization of American Historians. It was first published in 1914 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Review 81 (September 1994): 461-492. (CP) Craig Wilder, "The Rise and Influence of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 22 (1998): 7-18. WEEK NINE Culture I Supplementary Readings Annemarie Bean, "Transgressing the Gender Divide: The Female Impersonator female impersonator Vox populi Drag queen, see there in Nineteenth Century Black Face Minstrelsy min·strel·sy n. pl. min·strel·sies 1. The art or profession of a minstrel. 2. A troupe of minstrels. 3. Ballads and lyrics sung by minstrels. ," in Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara eds., Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press, founded (in present form) in 1959, is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University (Connecticut). External link
Eric Lott, "Love and Theft: "Racial" Production and the Social Unconscious of Blackface," in Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1995): 38-62. David R. Roediger, "Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States," in The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1993): 133-163. Benjamin Reiss, "P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race," American Quarterly 51 (1999): 78-107. WEEK TEN Culture II Shane White, Chapter 7: "A Question of Style," in Somewhat More Independent (Text). Supplementary Readings Sterling Stuckey, excerpts, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundation of Black America (1987). Shane White, "The Death of James Johnson," American Quarterly 51 (1999): 753-795. WEEK ELEVEN Culture III: Black Theater Shane White, Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Cambridge: Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. , 2002), entire. WEEK TWELVE Gender and Sexuality Supplementary Reading Timothy J. Gilfoyle, "The Urban Geography of Commercial Sex: Prostitution in New York City, 1790-1860," Journal of Urban History 13 (August 1987): 371-393. Leslie M. Harris, "From Abolitionist Amalgamators to "Rulers of the Five Points": The Discourse of Interracial in·ter·ra·cial adj. Relating to, involving, or representing different races: interracial fellowship; an interracial neighborhood. Sex and Reform in Antebellum New York City," in Hodes ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (1999): 191-212. Graham Russell Hodges, "The Pastor and the prostitute: Sexual Power among African Americans and Germans in Colonial New York," in Hodes ed., Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York: New York University Press New York University Press (or NYU Press), founded in 1916, is a university press that is part of New York University. External link
WEEK THIRTEEN African Burial Ground: Historical Archeology Supplementary Reading: Ross W. Jamieson, "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995): 39-58. Cheryl J. La Roche and Michael L. Blakey, "Seizing Intellectual Power: The Dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground," Historical Archaeology 31 (1997): 84-106. C.E. Orser, "The Archaeology of the African Diaspora," Annual Review of Anthropology 27 (1998): 63-82. Deborah Gray White, "Mining the Forgotten: Manuscript Sources for Black Women's History," Journal of American History 74(1987): 237-242. WEEK FOURTEEN Conclusions Leslie M. Harris, Chapter 9, "The Failures of the City" in In the Shadow of Slavery. Additional Recommended Readings: Burrows, Edwin and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City
The region was inhabited by about 5000 [1] to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Foote, Thelma. Black and White Manhattan: Race Relations and Collective Identity in Colonial Society, 1626-1783. forthcoming Hodges, Graham Russell. Root & Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey 1613-1863. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Jackson, Kenneth, ed. Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press; New York: New York Historical Society, 1995 |
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