The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier Godine Amy
The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier Godine Amy The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. On their new-worked land,…
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The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier Godine Amy
The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship.Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. From the 1840s and '60s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote.
The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo, a new Black Adirondack settlement in the woods.Smith's plan was prescient, anticipating Black suffrage reform, affirmative action, environmental Smith's suffrage-seeking plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and most leading Black abolitionists.