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Canada and the United States

Anthony Gronowicz. Race and Class Politics in New York City before the Civil War. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1998. Pp. xix, 277. Cloth $45.00, paper $16.96.

With this book, Anthony Gronowicz joins a long line of historians who have seen New York City as the cockpit of Jacksonian politics. His aim is to illuminate the interconnectedness of race, class, and party in American history, and in particular to deromanticize the vaunted "artisan republicanism" of New York's white male skilled workers. 1

In Gronowicz's New York, as in Edmund Morgan's Virginia, white male equality was built on a foundation of racial subjugation. The city first gained prosperity through its colonial slave trade. Even as slavery later disappeared in New York and its black population levelled off, the city remained yoked to the South through the burgeoning traffic in cotton and textiles and its ideological buttress of racism. . . .

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