The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier – Hardcover-Quality Guarantee

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Amy Godine (Author)

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.

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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 510Dimensions: 1.73 x 9.06 x 6.22 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: November 15, 2023