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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City.

African American Studies
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

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Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, the author offers an account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. 

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