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Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York
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Winner of the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship from the New York Academy of History.
In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic.
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