Book of Donmon Teith

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

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

Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award Winner of the

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad t

A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the h