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"Stories of Freedom in Black New York re-creates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant and to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, it created a vibrant urban culture.
Through exhaustive research, Shane White imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African American balls, and the grubbiness of the Police Office. He allows us to observe the style of black men and women, to watch their public behaviour, and to hear the cries of black hawkers, the strident music of black parades, and the sly stories of black con men.".
"Taking center stage in this story is the African Company, a black theater troupe that exemplified the new spirit of experimentation that accompanied slavery's demise. For a few short years in the 1820s, a group of black New Yorkers, many of them ex-slaves, challenged pervasive prejudice and performed plays, including Shakespearean productions, before mixed race audiences.
Their audacity provoked excitement and hope among blacks, but often disgust among many whites for whom the theater's existence epitomized the horrors of emancipation.".
"Stories of Freedom in Black New York intertwines black theater and urban life into a powerful interpretation of what the end of slavery meant for blacks, whites, and New York City itself. White's story of the emergence of free black culture offers a unique understanding of emancipation's impact on everyday life, and on the many forms freedom can take."--BOOK JACKET.
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African American actors, African American theater, African Americans, African Company (New York), Biography, History, Intellectual life, Race relations, Slavery, Social aspects, Social aspects of Slavery, Social conditions, African Company (N.Y.), African Company (New York, N.Y.), Theater, Geschichte 1800-1850, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vrijgelaten slaven, Schwarze, Kulturleben, Openbaar leven, Gesellschaft, Toneelgezelschappen, Negers, New york (state), history, African americans, history, New york (state), social conditions, Slavery, history, United states, race relations, New york (n.y.), intellectual lifePlaces
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September 15, 2007, Harvard University Press
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Stories of freedom in Black New York
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