Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the NorthTen 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 mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fates of the land and the families that lived on it were bound to America's most tragic and tainted legacy. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery. Manegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John 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. Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farm--from John Usher, who was born into money, to Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter's son and made his fortune in Antigua--would depend upon slavery's profits until the 1780s, when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time, the land became a city, its questionable past discreetly buried, until now. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery. |
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User Review - snash - LibraryThing"Ten Hills Farm" was an excellent history of a farm near Boston. Initially established by John Winthrop, Isaac Royall, John Stark, and George Washington all owned or passed through its door. The ... Read full review
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| Title | Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North |
| Author | C. S. Manegold |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 069113152X, 9780691131528 |
| Length | 317 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / General History / United States / General History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies Social Science / Slavery |
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