The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier -- Amy Godine, Hardcover Esther Dean Track: 8 - Shooting Stars

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The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier -- Amy Godine, Hardcover Esther Dean Track: 8 - Shooting StarsThe 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. Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith,