Black Gotham: a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City

Family, memory, history

Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. Collect Street : circa 1819 ; The Mulberry Street School : circa 1828 ; The young graduates : circa 1834 ; Community building : circa 1840 ; A Black aristocracy : circa 1847 ; Whimsy and resistance : circa 1853 ; The Draft Riots : July 1863 ; Union and disunion : circa 1864

Brooklyn, 1865-1895. Peter Guignon's private wars : circa 1862 ; Philip White in Brooklyn : circa 1875 ; New women, new men at century's end

Commemorations.

Prologue: family, memory, history

Part I. Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. 1. Collect Street: Circa 1819

- 2. The Mulberry Street School: Circa 1828

- 3. The Young Graduates: Circa 1834

- 4. Community Building: Circa 1840

- 5. A Black Aristocracy: Circa 1847

- 6. Whimsy and Resistance: Circa 1853

- 7. The Draft Riots: July 1863

- 8. Union and Disunion: Circa 1864

Part Brooklyn, 1865-1895. 9. Peter Guignon's Private Wars: Circa 1862

- 10. Philip White in Brooklyn: Circa 1875

- 11. New Women, New Men at Century's End.