<B>A definitive account of the hitherto hidden slave past of America's first city.</B><br/><br/>"For much of the eighteenth century, New York City was second only to Charlestown, South Carolina, in its proportion of slaves in an urban population. It was a fact about New York that nearly always elicited comment from European visitors. "It rather hurts a European eye to see so many negro slaves upon the streets," one Scottish traveler complained."from <I>Slavery in New York</I><br/><br/>The recent discovery of the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan reminded Americans that slavery in the United States was not merely a phenomenon of the antebellum South. In fact, for most of its history New York was a slave city.<br/><br/>Edited by Ira Berlin, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of <I>Many Thousands Gone</I>, and Leslie Harris, <I>Slavery in New York</I> brings together twelve new contributions by leading historians of slavery and African American life in New York. Published to accompany a major exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, the book demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white, and how, as a way of doing business, it propelled New York to become the commercial and financial power it is today.<br/><br/>Powerfully illustrated with images from the New-York Historical Society exhibit, <I>Slavery in New York</I> will be the definitive account of New York's slave past.