Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Centralizing the History of Slavery, Racism, and Resistance 1
6. Most of the “Founders” Were Not Abolitionists, but Some from New York Were 13
7. Resistance! Resistance! Resistance! 29
8. Abolition on the Margins 47
9. Narratives of Slavery and Escape 63
10. We May Never Know the Real Harriet Tubman 79
11. New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations 99
12. Lincoln at Gettysburg 109
13. The New York Press, Racism, and the Presidential Election of 1864 125
14. Abolition 137
15. “The Execration of History” 145
16. Politics of Historical Memory 161
17. References 173
18. Index 191