Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810

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Somewhat More Independent This page intentionally left blank Somewhat More Independent THE END OF S L A V E R Y IN NEW YORK CITY, i 770— i 8 i o Shane White T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF G E O R G I A P R E S S Athens and London © 1991 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 All rights reserved Designed by Betty Palmer McDaniel Set in eleven on thirteen Janson Text The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Printed in the United States of America 91 92 93 94 95 C 5 4 3 2 1 95 96 97 98 99 P 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data White, Shane. Somewhat more independent : the end of slavery in New York City, 1770–1810 / Shane White. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8203-2374-8 1. Slavery — New York (N.Y.) — History. 2. New York (N.Y.) — History — 1775–1865. 3. Afro-Americans — New York (N.Y.) — History. 4. New York (N.Y.) — Race relations. I. Title. F128.44.W54 1991 974.7'1 — dc20 90-10843 CIP British Library Cataloging in Publication Date available ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4362-4 Portions of this book have previously appeared as “Impious Prayers: Elite and Popular Attitudes Towards Blacks and Slavery in the Middle-Atlantic States, 1783–1810,” New York History 67 (1986), 261–83; “A Question of Style: Blacks in and Around New York City in the late Eighteenth Century,” Journal of American Folklore 102 (1989), 24–25; “Pinkster: Afro-Dutch Syncretization in New York City and the Hudson Valley,” Journal of American Folklore 102 (1989), 69–76; and “‘We Dwell in Safety and Pursue Our Honest Callings’: Free Blacks in New York City, 1783–1810,” Journal of American History 75 (1988), 445–70. For Mavis and Chalky White, andfor Lexie Macdonald This page intentionally left blank ...