The Black Woods (eBook)

Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier

Amy Godine (Autor)

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2023
510 Seiten
Three Hills (Verlag)
9781501771705 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Society Book Award

The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s to the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build the farms that helped them meet a $250 property requirement imposed on Black New York voters in 1821.

Abolitionist Gerrit Smith gifted 120,000 acres to 3,000 landless Black New Yorkers, with the support of Frederick Douglass, John Brown and other abolitionists. His prescient plan enacted affirmative action and distributive justice. But when most of his grantees did not move north, Smith's interest cooled. He would not visit Timbuctoo, Freemen's Home, or Blacksville. The settlers were on their own.

In The Black Woods, Godine revives this history with stirring stories of frontier life and racial justice. She puts the vote-seeking Black pioneers at the heart of the Adirondack narrative. At long last, their shaping role has been reclaimed.

Autor

Amy Godine is an independent scholar. She has been writing and speaking about ethnic, migratory, and Black Adirondack history since 1990. She lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 29 b&w halftones, 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 19th-century abolition movement • Adirondack history • Adirondacks • affirmative action precursor • African American History • african american history, adirondack history, voting rights for african americans, voting disenfranchisment, black americans and the vote, antislavery efforts in America, voting history in New York State, black community in the Adirondack Mountains • African American suffrage • American History • american imagination • antislavery efforts in America • Black Abolitionists • black americans and the vote • black americans and the vote, black history month, marginalized communities, Black abolitionists, Timbuctoo, environmental distributive justice, African American suffrage • black community in the Adirondack Mountains • Black farming communities • Black History Month • Black Pioneers • Blacksville • Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award • Chesapeake Bay • civic rights • Civil Rights Movement • Civil War • Cold War • Colonial era • Cultural diversity • environmental distributive justice • Forgotten History • Freemen’s Home • LAND GRANTS • marginalized communities • new york history • Racial equity • State • The Black Woods • timbuctoo • voter property requirement • voting disenfranchisment • voting history in New York State • voting rights for african americans • wilderness settlement
• ISBN-13: 9781501771705 / 9781501771705