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In the traditions of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's classic, A Midwife's Story, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America's most appealing colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his amazing diary - kept from 1711 until 1758 - reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned or operated Adam Jackson for over thirty years. Within this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of the master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two people before eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often overlooked of our collective recollection of New England's background, but it was greatly impactful on the central product of colonial life: the family. Atlanta divorce attorneys corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as people across the communal spectrum fought to survive. Within this enlightening study, a fresh portrait of an era emerges.
