Stories of freedom in Black New York, Shane White
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Label
Stories of freedom in Black New York, Shane White
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-249) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Stories of freedom in Black New York
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
50028767
Responsibility statement
Shane White
Review
"Stories of Freedom in Black New York re-creates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant and to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, it created a vibrant urban culture. Through exhaustive research, Shane White imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African American balls, and the grubbiness of the Police Office. He allows us to observe the style of black men and women, to watch their public behaviour, and to hear the cries of black hawkers, the strident music of black parades, and the sly stories of black con men."
Summary
"Taking center stage in this story is the African Company, a black theater troupe that exemplified the new spirit of experimentation that accompanied slavery's demise. For a few short years in the 1820s, a group of black New Yorkers, many of them ex-slaves, challenged pervasive prejudice and performed plays, including Shakespearean productions, before mixed race audiences. Their audacity provoked excitement and hope among blacks, but often disgust among many whites for whom the theater's existence epitomized the horrors of emancipation.""Stories of Freedom in Black New York intertwines black theater and urban life into a powerful interpretation of what the end of slavery meant for blacks, whites, and New York City itself. White's story of the emergence of free black culture offers a unique understanding of emancipation's impact on everyday life, and on the many forms freedom can take."--Jacket
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- The end of slavery -- Staging freedom -- Shakespeare's true representative -- Imitation -- Epilogue
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Creator
Genre
Subject
- Biographies
- Race relations
- African American theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery + Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans + Intellectual life
- History
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life
- African American actors
- Intellectual life
- African Americans + Intellectual life -- 19th century
- New York (State) + New York
- African Company (N.Y.) -- History
- Slavery + Social aspects
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865
- African American actors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- 1775-1899
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations
- African American theater
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- African Americans + Social conditions
- African Americans
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- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject23
- Biographies
- Race relations
- African American theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery + Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans + Intellectual life
- History
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life
- African American actors
- Intellectual life
- African Americans + Intellectual life -- 19th century
- New York (State) + New York
- African Company (N.Y.) -- History
- Slavery + Social aspects
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865
- African American actors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- 1775-1899
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations
- African American theater
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- African Americans + Social conditions
- African Americans
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