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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. 
© New York University Press
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Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
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
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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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Source Version: 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.
URL: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/HEB90019
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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