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Author: Jason Lisle

The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island AUTH-12585106 and Dysport' )In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by hulking boxwoods. When Griswold went inside, she encountered a house full of revelations, including a letter from Thomas Jefferson and most remarkable and disturbing what the aged owner, Andrew Fiske, casually called the slave staircase. This staircase would reveal the extensive but little known story of