The Black Woods : : Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier /

The Black Woods : : Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier / / Amy Godine.

The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the 1840s and '60s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Godine, Amy,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (510 p.) :; 29 b&w halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Notes on Language, Spelling, and Surnames
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • A Scheme of Justice and Benevolence
  • Chapter 1 He Feeds the Sparrow
  • Chapter 2 Gerrit Smith Country
  • Chapter 3 Three Agents and Their Reasons
  • Chapter 4 Theories into Practice
  • Chapter 5 On Fat Lands under Genial Suns
  • Chapter 6 Something besides “Speechifying”
  • The Black Woods
  • Chapter 7 Trailblazers
  • Chapter 8 The Second Wave
  • Chapter 9 A Fluid Cartography
  • Chapter 10 We Who Are Here Can See and Know
  • Chapter 11 I Begin to Be Regarded as an “American Citizen”
  • Chapter 12 If You Only Knew How Poor I Am
  • Chapter 13 Nothing Would Be More Encouraging to Me
  • John Brown Country
  • Chapter 14 To Arms! The Black Woods at War
  • Chapter 15 An Empowering Diaspora
  • Chapter 16 White Memory, Black Memory
  • Chapter 17 Pilgrims
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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