Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250050205)

In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by hulking boxwoods. When Griswold went inside, she encountered a house full of revelations, including a letter from Thomas Jefferson and--most remarkable and disturbing--what the aged owner, Andrew Fiske, casually called the slave staircase.

This staircase would reveal the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery, and in 1997 Griswold returned with a team of archaeologists, uncovering a landscape filled with stories. Based on years of research--and voyages that took her as far as West Africa--Griswold has given us both the biography of a place that has witnessed war and reversals in fortune, and the riveting story of the family that has occupied it for three centuries. A fine-grained account and a sweeping drama, The Manor captures American history in all its richness and contradictions.

Author: Mac Griswold
ISBN-10: 1250050200
ISBN-13: 9781250050205
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d