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Published May 31, 2016 by Audible Studios on Brilliance, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio.

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Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. Jonathan Gill's Harlem is a groundbreaking history, the first to present the complete chronicle of this remarkable place. From Henry Hudson's first contact with native Harlemites on the island they called Mannahatta, through Harlem's years as a colonial outpost at the edge of the known world, Gill traces the neighborhood's story, marshaling a tremendous wealth of detail and a host of fascinating figures. Harlem was an agricultural center under British rule, the site of a key early Revolutionary War battle, and later a bucolic site for the great estates of wealthy elites like Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and John James Audubon, who …

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