1869, Ep. 141 with Amy Godine, author of The Black Woods

1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

Learn more about The Black Woods here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771682/the-black-woods/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/bMcnVOvsG9riaiRRXpVI4fgaWf8?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Amy Godine, author of the new book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier. From Saratoga Springs, New York, independent scholar Amy Godine has been writing and speaking about ethnic, migratory, and Black Adirondack history for more than three decades. She has curated several exhibits including Dreaming of Timbuctoo at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in North Elba, New York. We spoke to Amy about the history surrounding the gift of 120,000 acres of Adirondack land from upstate abolitionist Gerrit Smith to three thousand Black New Yorkers in the 1840s, the families who took Smith up on his offer and moved north to settle and farm in the Adirondacks, and how the very presence of these Black farming families effectively abolitionized the region. (Save 30% bin the UK y using the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.)