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Carla L. Peterson, “Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale UP, 2011)
Digging up our roots seems to be the thing these days. There are a host of genealogy resources available for anyone who cares to (re)discover their familial past. Still, in the Americas people of African descent who want to take part in this digging encounter barriers; often there are gaps in the family histories of those whose members were bought and sold on a whim. As she takes readers on a remarkable historical journey, Carla Peterson, author of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale University Press, 2011), illuminates the challenges…
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