Published to accompany a major exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, this book demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white. Archival photos.

Ira Berlin is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he lives. He is the author of Many Thousands Gone, Generations of Captivity, and Slaves Without Masters (The New Press). He co-edited Remembering Slavery (with Marc Favreau and Steven F. Miller), Families and Freedom (with Leslie S. Rowland), and Slavery in New York (with Leslie M. Harris), all published by The New Press. His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Abraham Lincoln Prize, among many other awards.

Leslie Harris is a professor of history at Emory University and is the author of In the Shadow of Slavery.