'Bound By Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry' Coat of Arms

'Bound By Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry' Coat of ArmsIn Bound by Bondage, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery was vital to the rise of this aristocracy, and those dynastic families built prestige through mastery, creating manorial estates and expansive trading networks from the Northeast to the South, the Caribbean, and beyond. Members of this elite class, including mayors, governors, and presidents, were among the largest slaveholders in the North, with power aspirations uniting Anglo and Dutch

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and they waged a long and bitter battle for freedom during the decades that followed

New Paltz is illustrated with some two hundred unique photographs dating from the 1860s

Beyond the French borders

Elodie and Naomi - This creative pair each has a tri-fold studio where they sketch and practice

called trusses

there have always been women who have spoken out for what's right

interconnectedness

and the Reconstruction that followed

offers a rare glimpse into the little-documented world of Northern slavery

For 140 years

or "count-and-capture" games