Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863

Graham Russell Gao Hodges

424 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of...

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