Jul 29th, 2013, 5:28 pm









New Yorkers may think of slavery as a Southern institution, but it thrived here in colonial times. And in “The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28), the landscape historian Mac Griswold tells the long story of a surviving slaveholders’ estate, hiding in plain sight on Shelter Island and occupied by the 11th generation of the family that settled it in 1651.















Sylvester Manor on Long Island, occupied by one family since 1651.






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Jul 29th, 2013, 5:28 pm