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Antebellum New York

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, New Yorkers had plenty on their minds besides the issue of slavery. Industrialization had radically changed the city in the previous 20 years, immigrants needed for labor were bringing “foreign” cultures to American shores, the rising middle class was beginning to mimic European high society and new technology was changing everyday life—for those who could afford it. Join us to look at a city whose own thorny problems made the “slavery question” seem a distant dilemma.

Barry Lewis is an architectural historian who specializes in European and American architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries.











When: Tue., May. 19, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $38
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In the decades leading up to the Civil War, New Yorkers had plenty on their minds besides the issue of slavery. Industrialization had radically changed the city in the previous 20 years, immigrants needed for labor were bringing “foreign” cultures to American shores, the rising middle class was beginning to mimic European high society and new technology was changing everyday life—for those who could afford it. Join us to look at a city whose own thorny problems made the “slavery question” seem a distant dilemma.

Barry Lewis is an architectural historian who specializes in European and American architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries.

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