Thelma Wills Foote is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
"In this sober, thoughtful, profoundly researched book, Thelma
Foote shows that Black people were fundamental to early New York.
Under Dutch founders, English conquerors, and American
Revolutionaries, slavery, racial thinking, and slaves' resistance
were part of the main New York story. Much of that story is ugly,
but it is an American tale that needs telling and Foote has told it
very well."--Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University
"Challenging the 'apartheid narrative' of New York City's early
history, Thelma Foote illuminates such topics as the legal position
of blacks in Dutch Manhattan; 18th-century patterns of slave labor
and social exchange; African American burial rituals; and the
so-called Negro Plot of 1741."--Patricia U. Bonomi, author of Under
the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial
America
"For urban historians, especially those who specialize in the
history of New York City, this is required reading....Foote's
analysis of racial formation will force historians and urban
scholars to rethink their understanding of NYC's history."--CHOICE
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