For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England
Winner of the New England Historical Association's James P. Hanlan Book AwardWinner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History's Homer D. Babbidge Jr. AwardIncomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street JournalIn the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's classic, A Midwife's Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America's most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned…
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- ISBN: 978-0-87140-347-6
- EAN: 9780871403476
- Produktnummer: 34246767
- Verlag: Liveright
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'229 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 pages of illustrations; 2 maps
Über den Autor
Allegra di Bonaventura is the associate director of graduate programs at Yale Law School. She received a PhD from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School. She is the author of For Adam's Sake, which was awarded the New England Historical Association James P. Hanlan Book Award and named one of the best books of 2013 by the Wall Street Journal.
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