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The Black Woods: Map of the Adirondack Gift Lands

The Black Woods
Map of the Adirondack Gift Lands

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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

Map of the Adirondack Gift Lands

Map of Black civil rights and antislavery meetings and conventions in New York State where Gerrit Smith’s “scheme of justice and benevolence” was endorsed by activists. Map by Bill Nelson.

This New York map indicates the location of Gerrit Smith’s Adirondack gift land in Essex and Franklin Counties for Black New Yorkers; the four parts (districts) of New York where Smith’s land agents scouted for grantees from 1846 to 1853; and the designated agents for each district. Map by Bill Nelson.

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