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Notes Introduction 1. August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, Black History and theHistorical Profession , 1915-1980 (Urbana, 111., 1986). For an excellent critical account of the recent writing on blacks and slavery, see Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (New York, 1988), 472-91. 2. Papers presented at the conference at Purdue University in October 1983 have been published in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., The State of Afro-American History: Past, Present, and Future (Baton Rouge, La., 1986), 3. Meier and Rudwick,Black History and the Historical Profession, 144. 4. On the impact of the WPA interviews,see, for example, Norman R. Yetman, "Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery,"American Quarterly 36 (1984): 181-210. 5. Henry S. Cooley, A Study of Slavery in New Jersey (Baltimore, 1896); A. Judd Northrup, "Slavery in New York: A Historical Sketch," State Library Bulletin 4 (1900): 243-313. See also the studies of other northern colonies: William Johnston, Slavery in Rhode Island, 7755-777^ (Providence, 1894); George H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (New York, 1866); Bernard C. Steiner, History of Slavery in Connecticut (Baltimore, 1893); Edmund Raymond Turner, The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery—Servitude—Freedom, 1639-1861 (Washington, D.C., 1911). 6. See Simeon E Moss, "The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in a Free State (1685-1866)," Journal of Negro History 35 (1950): 289-314; Edwin Olson, "Social Aspects of Slave Life in New York,"Journal of Negro History 26 (1941): 66-77; Leo H. Kirsch, Jr., "The Negro and New York, 1783-1865,"Journal of 'Negro History 16(1931): 382-473; Edgar J. McManus, A History of Negro Slavery in New York (Syracuse,N.Y., 1966); Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North (Syracuse,N.Y., 1973). 7. McManus, Black Bondage in the North, x. 212 Notes to Pages xxi-xxii 8. There have been a few local studies of slavery. For a solid study of Long Island, see Richard Shannon Moss, "Slavery on Long Island: Its Rise and Decline During the Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries " (Ph.D. diss., Saint John's University, 1985). See also Ralph Ireland, "Slavery on Long Island: A Study in Economic Motivation," Journal of Long Island History 6 (1966): 1-12; Thomas J. Davis, "Three Dark Centuries Around Albany: A Survey of Black Life in New York's Capital City Area Before World War I," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 7 (J 9^3): 7~2 3; Thomas J. Davis, "New York's Long Black Line: A Note on the Growing Slave Population, 1626-1790," ibid., 2 (1978): 41-59; Francis D. Pingeon, "Slavery in New Jersey on the Eve of Revolution," in New Jersey in the American Revolution, Papers Presented at the First Annual New Jersey History Symposium 1969 (Trenton, N.J., 1970): 4153 . For New York City, see Thomas J. Davis, "Slavery in Colonial New York City" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1974); Thomas J. Davis, " 'These Enemies of Their Own Household': ANote on the Troublesome Slave Population in Eighteenth-Century New York City," Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Geneaological Society 5 (1984): 133-47. 9. See Kenneth Scott, "The Slave Insurrection in New York in 1712," New-York Historical Society Quarterly 45 (1961): 43-74. The most detailed and useful account of 1741 is Thomas J. Davis, Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York (New York, 1985). See also Ferenc M. Szasz, "The New York Slave Revolt of 1741: A Re-examination," New York History 48 (1967): 215-30; Leopold S. Launtiz-Schurer, Jr., "Slave Resistance in Colonial New York: An Interpretation of Daniel Horsmanden's New York Conspiracy," Phylon 41 (1980): 137-52. One other incident in Albany has received attention: Don R. Gerlach, "Black Arson in Albany, November 1793,"Journal of Black Studies 7 (1977): 301-12. 10. For some useful comments on the distortions resulting from concentrating on rebellions and revolutions rather than on the more prosaic forms of everyday resistance, see James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, Conn., 1985), xv-xvi and passim. 11. McManus, Black Bondage in the North, x. 12. David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Ithaca, N.Y., 1975); Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1968). 13. In addition to the relevant chapters in the...