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Article: Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2008
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Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827. By David N. Gellman. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 297. $45.00.)
The author of this book fills a gap in the growing literature of the "first emancipation" of enslaved African Americans in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States. David N. Gellman focuses primarily on public discourse leading to the New York legislature's approval in 1799 of the gradual abolition of slavery. This law held that children born to enslaved mothers after 4 July 1799 would not be slaves; instead males would serve as bound servants until the age of ...