{"product_id":"ten-hills-farm-c-s-manegold-9780691150352","title":"Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of how colonial New England was built on the Atlantic slave trade\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTen Hills Farm\u003c\/i\u003e tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers, to the Royalls--all prominent dynasties tied to the Native American and Atlantic slave trades. In this mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fortunes of these families--and the fate of Ten Hills Farm--were bound to America's most tragic and tainted legacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eManegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop, famous for envisioning his \"city on the hill\" and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farm--from John Usher, who was born into money, to Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter's son and made his fortune in Antigua--would depend upon slavery's profits until the 1780s, when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time, the land became a city, its questionable past discreetly buried, until now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, \u003ci\u003eTen Hills Farm\u003c\/i\u003e digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. S. Manegold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691150354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691150352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.58w x 0.90d","brand":"C. S. Manegold","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925616787711,"sku":"9780691150352","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_04e272a6-bb38-4854-8c19-b08f2223e067.jpg?v=1681078330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ten-hills-farm-c-s-manegold-9780691150352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}