Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
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Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. In this...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:069113152X
ISBN13:9780691131528
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.44 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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