{"product_id":"slavery-in-the-north-forgetting-history-and-recovering-memory-9780812250381","title":"Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2002  we learned that President George Washington had eight (and  later  nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and  though torn down in 1832  it housed the enslaved men and women Washington brought to the city as well as serving as the countrys first executive office building. Intense controversy erupted over what this newly resurfaced evidence of enslaved people in Philadelphia meant for the site that was next door to the new home for the Liberty Bell. How could slavery best be remembered and memorialized in the birthplace of American freedom? For Marc Howard Ross  this conflict raised a related and troubling question: why and how did slavery in the North fade from public consciousness to such a degree that most Americans have perceived it entirely as a \"Southern problem\"?  Although slavery was institutionalized throughout the Northern as well as the Southern colonies and early states  the existence of slavery in the North and its significance for the regions economic development has rarely received public recognition. In Slavery in the North  Ross not only asks why enslavement disappeared from the Norths collective memories but also how the dramatic recovery of these memories in recent decades should be understood. Ross undertakes an exploration of the history of Northern slavery  visiting sites such as the African Burial Ground in New York  Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia  the ports of Rhode Island  old mansions in Massachusetts  prestigious universities  and rediscovered burying grounds. Inviting the reader to accompany him on his own journey of discovery  Ross recounts the processes by which Northerners had collectively forgotten 250 years of human bondage and the recentand continuingstruggles over recovering  and commemorating  what it entailed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651674464309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812250389","price":36.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812250381.jpg?v=1781837309","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/slavery-in-the-north-forgetting-history-and-recovering-memory-9780812250381","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}