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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Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors...

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