The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York : A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827

Douma, Michael J.

Cambridge University Press（2025/01発売）

Cambridge University Press（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 270 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009441377
• DDC分類 306.36209747

Full Description

Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics, Michael J. Douma shows that slavery in eighteenth-century New York was mostly rural, heavily Dutch, and generally profitable through the cultivation of wheat. Slavery in Dutch New York ultimately died a political death in the nineteenth century, while resistance from enslaved persons, and a gradual turn against slavery in society and in the courts, encouraged its destruction. This important study will reshape the historiography of slavery in the American North.

Contents

Introduction; 1. The Size, Extent, and Nature of Dutch New York Slavery; 2. The Rural Dutch Slave-Wheat Complex; 3. The Price of Slaves in New York and New Jersey, 1700-1830; 4. Dutch-speaking Runaway Slaves in New York and New Jersey; 5. Sold South? Emancipation by the Numbers in Dutch New York; 6. Dutch Resistance to Emancipation and the Negotiations to End Slavery in New York; 7. Making Sense of the Mild Thesis and the End of Dutch New York Slavery; Appendix - Wheat prices; Appendix - Percent of Slaves NY-born.