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03878aam a2200493Ii 4500 001 6C002C5C066511E4B09646AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140708010108 008 130912t20142013nyuab b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1250050200 020 $a 9781250050205 035 $a (OCoLC)857967141 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d GSU $d SILO 050 4 $a E445.N56 $b G75 2014 100 1 $a Griswold, Mac K., $e author. 245 14 $a The manor : $b three centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island / $c Mac Griswold. 250 $a First Picador edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2014. 300 $a xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-437) and index. 505 0 $a The discovery -- Living with the Indians -- Amsterdam -- The other island : Barbados -- Nathaniel's middle passage -- Before the whirlwind -- The world turns upside down -- "Time of longing" -- Where they lived -- How they lived -- In the ground -- "Oppression upon the mind" -- Quaker martyrs, Quaker peace -- "A Duchman in his hartt" -- "Children of the founders" -- Illusion and reality -- The doors -- Family and slavery -- Summer colony -- Ladies of the manor. 520 $a In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, "The Manor" is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. 651 0 $a Sylvester Manor Plantation Site (N.Y.) 650 0 $a Slavery $z Long Island $z Long Island $x History. 650 0 $a Plantations $z Long Island $z Long Island $x History. 650 0 $a Plantation life $z Long Island $z Long Island $x History. 650 0 $a Excavations (Archaeology) $z Long Island. $z Long Island. 651 0 $a Shelter Island (N.Y.) $x History. 651 0 $a Long Island (N.Y.) $x History. 650 0 $a Plantation owners $z Long Island $z Long Island $v Biography. 651 0 $a Long Island (N.Y.) $v Biography. 650 7 $a Excavations (Archaeology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917564 650 7 $a Plantation life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01065779 650 7 $a Plantation owners. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01065786 650 7 $a Plantations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01065800 650 7 $a Slavery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120426 651 7 $a New York (State) $z Long Island. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241714 651 7 $a New York (State) $z Shelter Island. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01257672 651 7 $a New York (State) $z Sylvester Manor Plantation Site. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01889756 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021021519.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6C002C5C066511E4B09646AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search