Bibliograph

Slavery in the North, forgetting history and recovering memory, Marc Howard Ross

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Slavery in the North, forgetting history and recovering memory, Marc Howard Ross

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it housed the enslaved men and women Washington brought to the city as well as serving as the country's first executive office building. Intense controversy erupted over what this newly resurfaced evidence of enslaved people in Philadelphia meant for the site that was next door to the new home for the Liberty Bell. How could slavery best be remembered and memorialized in the birthplace of American freedom? For Marc Howard Ross, this conflict raised a related and troubling question: why and how did slavery in the North fade from public consciousness to such a degree that most Americans have perceived it entirely as a "Southern problem"? --, Provided by the publisher.

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Slavery in the North

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bibliography

Oclc number

10314230101088485465

Responsibility statement

Marc Howard Ross

Sub title

forgetting history and recovering memory

Table Of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1. Collective Memory. Chapter 2. Surveying Enslavement in the North.Chapter 3. Slavery and Collective Forgetting. Chapter 4. Enslaved Africans in the President's House. Chapter 5. Memorializing the Enslaved on Independence Mall. Chapter 6. The Bench by the Side of the Road. Chapter 7. Burying Grounds Chapter 8. Overcoming Collective Forgetting Epilogue

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