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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Notes on Language, Spelling, and Surnames
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. A Scheme of Justice and Benevolence
    1. 1. He Feeds the Sparrow
    2. 2. Gerrit Smith Country
    3. 3. Three Agents and Their Reasons
    4. 4. Theories into Practice
    5. 5. On Fat Lands under Genial Suns
    6. 6. Something besides “Speechifying”
  6. The Black Woods
    1. 7. Trailblazers
    2. 8. The Second Wave
    3. 9. A Fluid Cartography
    4. 10. We Who Are Here Can See and Know
    5. 11. I Begin to Be Regarded as an “American Citizen”
    6. 12. If You Only Knew How Poor I Am
    7. 13. Nothing Would Be More Encouraging to Me
  7. John Brown Country
    1. 14. To Arms! The Black Woods at War
    2. 15. An Empowering Diaspora
    3. 16. White Memory, Black Memory
    4. 17. Pilgrims
  8. Epilogue
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index
  13. Map of the Adirondack Gift Lands

Publication of this book was supported by a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Endpaper maps created by Peter Seward and Ren Davidson Seward, Saranac Lake, New York.

Copyright © 2023 by Amy Godine.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2023 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Godine, Amy, author.

Title: The black woods : pursuing racial justice on the Adirondack frontier / Amy Godine.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023002743 (print) | LCCN 2023002744 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501771682 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501771699 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501771705 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Smith, Gerrit, 1797–1874—Influence. | Antislavery movements—New York (State)—History. | African Americans—Land tenure—New York (State)—History. | African Americans—Suffrage. | North Elba (N.Y. : Town)—History—19th century.

Classification: LCC E445.N56 G63 2023 (print) | LCC E445.N56 (ebook) | DDC 974.7/00496073—dc23/eng/20230126

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023002743

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023002744

Cover image: A view of Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks

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