[Download pdf] Stories of Freedom in Black New York
✿ Shane White ✿
| #808924 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2007-09-15 | 2007-08-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.68 x5.50l,.89 | File Name: 0674025784 | 272 pages |
||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Incredibly interesting book--some very sad stories|By R. A Burt|This is an extremely well-written and well-researched account of black New York in the nineteenth century, concentrating mostly on theater. Especially fascinating to me is the story of Shakespearean black actor James Hewlett and his [ublished responses to an English actor who had tuaght Hewlett Shakespeare and la|From Publishers Weekly|New York abolition, which was formally granted in 1817 but not fully carried out until July, 4, 1827, complicated the social structure of the state and city during an awkward, staggered process. During this period a theater troupe called
Stories of Freedom in Black New York recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created a vibrant urban culture. Through exhaustive research, Shane White imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African America...
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