The black woods : pursuing racial justice on the Adirondack frontier / Amy Godine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godine, Amy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874--Influence.

Smith, Gerrit.

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.

Antislavery movements--New York (State)--History.

Antislavery movements.

African Americans--Land tenure--New York (State)--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Suffrage.

North Elba (N.Y. : Town)--History--19th century.

North Elba (N.Y. : Town).

African Americans--Land tenure.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

New York (State).

New York (State)--North Elba (Town).

Genre:

History

Informational works.

Physical Description:

xxii, 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2023]

Biography/History:

From Saratoga Springs, New York, independent scholar Amy Godine has been writing and speaking about ethnic, migratory, and Black Adirondack history for more than three decades. Exhibits she has curated include Dreaming of Timbuctoo at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in North Elba, New York.

Summary:

"In August 1846, abolitionist Gerrit Smith revealed his intent to parcel out 120,000 Adirondack acres to three thousand black New Yorkers to enable them to win the right to vote through property ownership. This book is the story of this so-called grant, the actuality of the lives of the new homesteaders in the North Country of the Adirondacks, and the legacy of their experiences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A scheme of justice and benevolence. He feeds the sparrow ; Gerrit Smith country ; Three agents and their reasons ; Theories into practice ; On fat lands under genial suns ; Something beyond "speechifying"

The Black woods. Trailblazers

The second wave

A wider cartography

We who are here can see and now

I begin to be regarded as an American citizen

If only you knew how poor I am

Nothing would be more encouraging to me

To arms! The black woods at war

Diaspora

White memory, black memory

Pilgrims.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-474) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Godine, Amy. Black woods.

ISBN:

9781501771682

150177168X

OCLC:

1366103671