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Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. In this mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fates of the land and the families that lived on it were bound to America's most tragic and tainted legacy. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery.
About the Author
C. S. Manegold was a reporter with The New York Times, Newsweek and The Philadelphia Inquirer before turning her attention to longer works. As a foreign correspondent, she covered Southeast Asia and reported from the Middle East during the Gulf War. When she joined the New York Times in 1992 she wrote frequently for the Week In Review and the Sunday magazine, covered the U.S. military intervention in Haiti and the case of Shannon Faulkner v. The Citadel, a battle that would become the most expensive civil rights case in American history, and the subject of her first book. Winner of numerous national awards, Manegold was part of The New York Times's team recognized with a Pulitzer Prize (staff award) for the paper's coverage of the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, an event which, horrific as it was, would be tragically eclipsed on 9/11.Manegold's first book, "In Glory's Shadow," was published by Knopf in 2000 and cited on the Los Angeles Times' list of best non-fiction for that year. Work on her second book, "Ten Hills Farm" was supported by grants and fellowships from Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society and the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College. In 2001, Manegold moved to Atlanta to become the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory University. While there, she taught journalism history and ethics, narrative non-fiction, South African history and contemporary issues and business reporting. She left that position in 2006 to focus exclusively on "Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North," Princeton, 2010.Now at Mt. Holyoke College, she continues to concentrate on narrative non-fiction and journalism ethics. When not teaching or writing she is either wheeling about on her beloved bike, making pottery, doing the great American juggling act with her busy family, or mucking about in the garden.
