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Jim Crow New York: a documentary history of race and citizenship, 1777-1877

David N. Gellman and David Quigley

Year: 2004, c2003.

Publisher: New York University Press.

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table of contents

Title Page

Preface to the Electronic Edition

List of Illustrations

[Dedication]

Acknowledgments

Introduction

[Intro]

I: "Jim Crow New York"

II: The Meaning of Citizenship

III: Freedom's Fortunes: New York and the Nation

IV: The Approach: Attending to the Voices of New York's History

V: A Documentary in Three Parts

Part I: Slavery, Abolition, and Citizenship, 1777-1817

Context

Chronology

Map

A: Franchise Provision, New York State Constitution, 1777

B: Veto Message, 1785

C: Anti-Abolition Article, 1785

D: "Mungo Speaks," 1788

E: Antislavery Orations, 1797 and 1798

[Intro]

Samuel Miller, April 12, 1797

E. H. Smith, April 11, 1798

F: Gradual Abolition Act, 1799

G: African American Political Oration, 1809

H: An Act Regulating Black Suffrage, 1811

I: Act Declaring 1827 as the End of Slavery in New York, 1817

Part II: The Convention of 1821 and the Politics of Disfranchisement

Context

Chronology

Map

J: Connecticut Constitution Confirms Disfranchisement, 1818

[Intro]

Article VI. Of the Qualifications of Electors

K: Resolution Opposing the Missouri Constitution, 1820

L: Antiblack Article, National Advocate, 1821

M: Extended Excerpts from the Convention of 1821

[Intro]

Prologue: Principles and Procedures

[Intro]

The Convention Act

Act One: The Debate over Racial Disqualification

Act Two: Citizenship versus Property

Act Three: Compromising Black Citizenship

Epilogue: Losers and Loose Ends

Part III: The Long Reconstruction, 1821-1877

Context

Chronology

Map

N: First African American Newspaper, 1827

O: Emancipation Addresses, 1827

[Intro]

William Hamilton

Nathaniel Paul

P: Address, African American State Convention, 1840

[Intro]

Address of the New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, to the People of the State

Q: Excerpts from the Debate on Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention, 1846

[Intro]

1846 Convention

R: Land Reform Proposal, 1846

S: Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls, 1848

[Intro]

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

T: Anti-Property Qualification Pamphlet, 1860

[Intro]

Property Qualification or No Property Qualification

U: Report on Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention, 1867-1868

[Intro]

Greeley Committee Report, June 28, 1867

V: Letter to the Editor: Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Sojourner Truth, 1867

[Intro]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the New York World

W: "Appeal to Christians," 1869

[Intro]

Appeal to Christians, From the Detroit Post

X: Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1870

[Intro]

[No Head in Print Version]

[Intro]

Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1870

New York's Revised Suffrage Clause, 1874

Y: Newspaper Coverage of First Equal Manhood Suffrage Election, 1870

[Intro]

The Day Here

The Federal Troops and the Militia

Z: Excerpts from Tilden Commission Report, 1877

[Intro]

Tilden Commission Report, 1877

Additional Resources

"A Serious Address to the Whig Slaveholders, in the State of New York" and "A Letter from Cuffee to the Printer"

Editors' Note

"A Serious Address to the Whig Slaveholders, in the State of New York"

"A Letter from Cuffee to the Printer"

Antislavery Poems and Soliloquy

"On the Death of an African Slave"

Newspaper Excerpt of Alleged Slave Soliloquy

Antislavery Poem 1

Antislavery Poem 2

Proceedings and Debates from the New York Constitutional Conventions of 1821, 1846, and 1867-68

Bibliographic Essay

[Intro]

General Works

Slavery, Abolition, and Citizenship, 1777-1817

The Convention of 1821 and the Politics of Disfranchisement

The Long Reconstruction, 1821-1877

Notes

Notes to Part I

Notes to Part II

Notes to Part III

Index

A-L

M-Y

About the Editors

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Title:

Jim Crow New York : a documentary history of race and citizenship, 1777-1877 edited by David N. Gellman and David Quigley.

Author:

Gellman, David Nathaniel; Quigley, David, 1966-

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Jim Crow New York : a documentary history of race and citizenship, 1777-1877 edited by David N. Gellman and David Quigley.
Gellman, David Nathaniel, Quigley, David, 1966-
New York: New York University Press, 2004, c2003.

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Subject Headings:

• African Americans -- Segregation -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
• African Americans -- Suffrage -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
• Slavery -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
• Slavery -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• New York (State) -- Race relations
• New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865
• New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865

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