{"product_id":"new-yorks-grand-emancipation-jubilee-alan-j-singer-9781438469713","title":"New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines slavery, abolition, and race in the United States with a special focus on New York State.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Alan J. Singer discusses the history of race and racism in the United States, emphasizing the continuing significance of slavery's past in shaping our present. Each chapter addresses a different theme in the history of slavery and the abolitionist struggle in the United States, with a focus on events and debates in New York State. Chapters examine the founders of the new nation and their views on slavery and equality; African American resistance; how abolitionists moved from the margins to the center of political debate; key players in the anti-slavery struggle such as David Ruggles, Solomon Northup, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, William Seward, and Abraham Lincoln; celebrations of freedom; as well as ongoing racism. Interspersed throughout the text are teaching notes that explore primary source documents and resources. The book draws on the latest scholarship to address and correct historical myths about both New York State before, during, and after the American Civil War, especially the pro-slavery, anti-civil rights stance of New York Copperhead Democrats in Congress, and the crucial role of Black and White abolitionists in ending slavery in the United States and challenging racial injustice. \u003ci\u003eNew York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee\u003c\/i\u003e is not only an effort to include more African Americans as historical actors and celebrate their activism and achievements, but to provide an opportunity to analyze historical moments for change, explore their dynamic, and discover the conditions that make some of them successful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan J. Singer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438469713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438469713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 6.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Alan J. Singer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419495317759,"sku":"9781438469713","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3bb32867-68e7-4d1a-a8a5-004eb84ad2a3.jpg?v=1761511891","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-yorks-grand-emancipation-jubilee-alan-j-singer-9781438469713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}