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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

And I thought, It could have worked! This democracy, this land
of freedom and equality and the pursuit of happiness—it could have
worked! There was something to it, after all! It didn’t have to turn
into a greedy free-for-all! We didn’t have to make a mess of it and
the continent and ourselves! It could have worked! It wasn’t just a
joke, just a blind for the machinations of money!

—Ian Frazier, Great Plains

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