| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827. By David N. Gellman. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 297 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3174-9.)

The movement from slavery to freedom in New York has been amply described both in studies of the broader story of slavery's eradication in the northern states as a whole and in works that focus on the particulars of the movement in the state itself. David N. Gellman's approach opens by weaving together (and lavishly crediting) those works to create an understanding of the social, political, and cultural contexts of the movement in the first two decades of the American republic. It is a useful, if perhaps overlong, discussion of the field. Then things get really interesting, for what Gellman adds to this history is a superb exploration of the public discourse that shaped and reflected this lurching political transformation.

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