ContentsPrefaceNotes on Language, Spelling, and SurnamesAbbreviationsIntroductionA Scheme of Justice and Benevolence 1. He Feeds the Sparrow2. Gerrit Smith Country3. Three Agents and Their Reasons4. Theories into Practice5. On Fat Lands under Genial Suns6. Something besides “Speechifying”The Black Woods 7. Trailblazers8. The Second Wave9. A Fluid Cartography10. We Who Are Here Can See and Know11. I Begin to Be Regarded as an “American Citizen”12. If You Only Knew How Poor I Am13. Nothing Would Be More Encouraging to MeJohn Brown Country 14. To Arms! The Black Woods at War15. An Empowering Diaspora16. White Memory, Black Memory17. PilgrimsEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndexMap of the Adirondack Gift Lands