Bibliograph

Black Gotham, a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City, Carla L. Peterson

Type

Label

Black Gotham, a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City, Carla L. Peterson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-429) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black Gotham

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

664840167

Responsibility statement

Carla L. Peterson

Sub title

a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City

Summary

Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period

Table Of Contents

Family, memory, history -- Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. Collect Street : circa 1819 ; The Mulberry Street School : circa 1828 ; The young graduates : circa 1834 ; Community building : circa 1840 ; A Black aristocracy : circa 1847 ; Whimsy and resistance : circa 1853 ; The Draft Riots : July 1863 ; Union and disunion : circa 1864 -- Brooklyn, 1865-1895. Peter Guignon's private wars : circa 1862 ; Philip White in Brooklyn : circa 1875 ; New women, new men at century's end -- Commemorations

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