Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by Graham Russell Hodges (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $54.45

  A history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African in 1613 to the Bloody Draft Riots of 1863. It explores the twin themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion and resistance that shaped life in the region.