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Author Peterson, Carla L., 1944- author.

Title Black Gotham : a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City / Carla L. Peterson
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 446 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Family, memory, history -- Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. Collect Street : circa 1819 -- The Mulberry Street School : circa 1828 -- The young graduates : circa 1834 -- 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-429) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject White, Philip, 1823-1891.
Guigon, Peter, 1813-1885.
Peterson, Carla L., 1944- -- Family
SUBJECT Guigon, Peter, 1813-1885 fast
Peterson, Carla L., 1944- fast
White, Philip, 1823-1891 fast
Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
African Americans
African Americans -- Social conditions
Families
Social conditions
SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010039306
ISBN 9780300164091
0300164092
1283096137
9781283096133