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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mac GriswoldPublish date:2014-04-01Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250050205ISBN-10:1250050200UPC:9781250050205Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, SlaveryBook Topic:State & Local, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC2BPF8XM7

In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by hulking boxwoods. When Griswold went inside, she encountered a house full of revelations, including a letter from Thomas Jefferson and--most remarkable and disturbing--what the aged owner, Andrew Fiske, casually called the "slave staircase."

This staircase would reveal the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery, and in 1997 Griswold returned with a team of archaeologists, uncovering a landscape filled with stories. Based on years of research--and voyages that took her as far as West Africa--Griswold has given us both the biography of a place that has witnessed war and reversals in fortune, and the riveting story of the family that has occupied it for three centuries. A fine-grained account and a sweeping drama, The Manor captures American history in all its richness and contradictions.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250050205ISBN-10:1250050200UPC:9781250050205Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, SlaveryBook Topic:State & Local, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC2BPF8XM7
Mac Griswold is a cultural landscape historian and the author of Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon and The Golden Age of American Gardens. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Travel + Leisure. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
Publisher: Picador USA

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