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

"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 hom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Godine, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Temas:
Smith, Gerrit, > 1797-1874 > Influence.
Smith, Gerrit, > 1797-1874.
1800-1899
Antislavery movements > New York (State) > History.
African Americans > Land tenure > New York (State) > History.
African Americans > Suffrage.
African Americans > Land tenure.
Antislavery movements.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
North Elba (N.Y. : Town) > History > 19th century.
New York (State)
New York (State) > North Elba (Town)
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • He feeds the sparrow
  • Gerrit Smith country
  • Three agents and their reasons
  • Theories into practice
  • Fat lands under genial suns
  • Something beyond speechifying
  • 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.

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