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• Winner of Herbert H. Lehman Prize 2024 (United States)

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Scrupulously documented and lucidly written, this is an eye-opening look at the complex legacy of slavery in America. * Publishers Weekly * Gellman is a crisp writer who directs both his central characters and his large supporting cast with clarity and economy without sacrificing intellectual heft or moral complexity. * The Wall Street Journal *

Scrupulously documented and lucidly written, this is an eye-opening look at the complex legacy of slavery in America. * Publishers Weekly * David Gellman's Liberty's Chain is an elegantly written study of slavery across several generations of the Jay family of New York, which offers an important intervention into several literatures on race and slavery in U.S. history * Journal of the Early Republic * Gellman is a crisp writer who directs both his central characters and his large supporting cast with clarity and economy without sacrificing intellectual heft or moral complexity. * The Wall Street Journal * Gellman's account kept this reviewer—admittedly not always an enthusiastic reader of studies about white founders—engrossed to the very last page. * William & Mary Quarterly *

Scrupulously documented and lucidly written, this is an eye-opening look at the complex legacy of slavery in America. * Publishers Weekly *

Scrupulously documented and lucidly written, this is an eye-opening look at the complex legacy of slavery in America. * Publishers Weekly * Gellman is a crisp writer who directs both his central characters and his large supporting cast with clarity and economy without sacrificing intellectual heft or moral complexity. * The Wall Street Journal *

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David N. Gellman is Professor of History at DePauw University. He is the author of Emancipating New York, coauthor of American Odysseys, and coeditor of Jim Crow New York.

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