{"product_id":"ten-hills-farm-the-forgotten-history-of-slavery-in-the-north-9780691131528","title":"Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe untold story of how colonial New England was built on the Atlantic slave trade  Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop  governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony  Ten Hills Farm  a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston  passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers  to the Royallsall prominent dynasties tied to the Native American and Atlantic slave trades. In this mesmerizing narrative  C. S. Manegold exposes how the fortunes of these familiesand the fate of Ten Hills Farmwere bound to Americas most tragic and tainted legacy.  Manegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century  from New England  through the South  to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop  famous for envisioning his \"city on the hill\" and lauded as a paragon of justice  owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farmfrom John Usher  who was born into money  to Isaac Royall  who began as a humble carpenters son and made his fortune in Antiguawould depend upon slaverys profits until the 1780s  when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time  the land became a city  its questionable past discreetly buried  until now.  Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world  Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circlefrom concealment to recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647077769269,"sku":"ByrdShop_069113152X","price":24.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691131528.jpg?v=1781687922","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ten-hills-farm-the-forgotten-history-of-slavery-in-the-north-9780691131528","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}