Slavery and freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley / Michael E. Groth.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Groth, Michael E., 1965- author.

Contributor:

• Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

• SUNY series, an American region
• SUNY series, an American region: studies in the Hudson Valley

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• African Americans--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.
• African Americans--New York (State)--Dutchess County--History.
• African Americans--Race identity--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.).
• African Americans--Race identity.
• Slavery--New York (State)--Dutchess County--History.
• Enslaved persons--Emancipation--New York (State).
• Antislavery movements--New York (State)--History.
• Antislavery movements.
• History.
• Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
• Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
• Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
• Slavery.
• African Americans.
• Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.
• Dutchess County--History.
• New York (State).
• New York (State)--Dutchess County.

Physical Description:

xix, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

Michael E. Groth focuses on the largely forgotten history of slavery in New York and the African American freedom struggle in the central Hudson Valley prior to the Civil War. Slaves were central actors in the drama that unfolded in the region during the Revolution, and they waged a long and bitter battle for freedom during the decades that followed. Slavery in the countryside was more oppressive than slavery in urban environments, and the agonizingly slow pace of abolition, constraints of rural poverty, and persistent racial hostility in the rural communities also presented formidable challenges to free black life in the central Hudson Valley. Groth explores how Dutchess County?s black residents overcame such obstacles to establish independent community institutions, engage in political activism, and fashion a vibrant racial consciousness in antebellum New York. By drawing attention to the African American experience in the rural Mid-Hudson Valley, this book provides new perspectives on slavery and emancipation in New York, black community formation, and the nature of black identity in the Early Republic.

Contents:

• Slaves and slavery in the Mid-Hudson Valley
• Resistance and revolution
• The ordeal of emancipation
• An arduous struggle : from slavery to freedom
• Race and the construction of a free community
• Abolitionism, protest, and Black identity
• Black Dutchess County at midcentury.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Groth, Michael E., 1965- Slavery and freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

ISBN:

• 9781438464572
• 1438464576

OCLC:

959965207

Online:

The Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund Home Page