Ten Hills Farm : : The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North / / C. S. Manegold.

Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning h...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2011
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 24 halftones. 5 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Letter from Antigua
  • Part I. The Puritan
  • 1.The Land
  • 2. Ten Hills Farm
  • 3. Possession
  • Part II. The Immigrant
  • 4. The King's Forester
  • 5. Favors to the Few
  • 6. Happy Instruments to Enlarge Our Dominions
  • 7. Slavers of the North
  • 8. Come Up in the Night with Them
  • 9. You May Own Negroes and Negresses
  • Part III. The Master
  • 10. Antigua
  • 11. Crime, Punishment, and Compensation
  • 12. Homecoming
  • 13. The Benefactor
  • 14. Luxury on the Grandest Scale
  • Part IV. The Petitioner
  • 15. We Shall Not Be Slaves
  • 16. Within the Bowels of a Free Country
  • 17. Death Is Not the Worst of Evils
  • 18. Reparations
  • Part V. The Legacy
  • 19. City upon a Hill
  • Afterword. Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008
  • Note to Readers
  • Notes on Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • Index