Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Carla L. Peterson

446 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective fast-paced
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A groundbreaking history of elite black New Yorkers in the nineteenth century, seen through the lens of the author's ancestors Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest...

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