· Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago/5. · Northern slavery, often overlooked by historians, is the subject of this detailed history of a well-preserved plantation at the far end of Long Island. Landscape historian Griswold (Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon, , etc.) stumbled upon Sylvester Manor during a boat trip in Intrigued by the gardens, she sought out the owners and discovered that the property had been in the Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mac Griswold has written a fascinating book about Sylvester Manor, a slave plantation on Long Island's Shelter Island. The house was founded in the 17th century and inhabited until very recently by descendants of these founders, people that Griswold presents as complicated, three-dimensional individuals whose lives are shadowed by the slavery that built and maintained their beautiful home/5(67).
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The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories brigh. The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island. Mac Griswold. Macmillan, Jul 2, - History - pages. 1 Review. Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely. Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.
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