The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier

by Amy Godine

Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award

The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. 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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150177168X
• ISBN13: 9781501771682
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Three Hills
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"