Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley
Author :
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 268
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781438464589
ISBN-13 : 1438464584
Rating : 4/5 (584 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley by : Michael E. Groth

Download or read book Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley written by Michael E. Groth and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley focuses on the largely forgotten history of slavery in New York and the African American freedom struggle in the central Hudson Valley prior to the Civil War. Slaves were central actors in the drama that unfolded in the region during the Revolution, and they waged a long and bitter battle for freedom during the decades that followed. Slavery in the countryside was more oppressive than slavery in urban environments, and the agonizingly slow pace of abolition, constraints of rural poverty, and persistent racial hostility in the rural communities also presented formidable challenges to free black life in the central Hudson Valley. Michael E. Groth explores how Dutchess County's black residents overcame such obstacles to establish independent community institutions, engage in political activism, and fashion a vibrant racial consciousness in antebellum New York. By drawing attention to the African American experience in the rural Mid-Hudson Valley, this book provides new perspectives on slavery and emancipation in New York, black community formation, and the nature of black identity in the Early Republic.

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley Related Books

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Michael E. Groth
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-17 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

GET EBOOK

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley focuses on the largely forgotten history of slavery in New York and the African American freedom struggle in the ce
Emancipating New York
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: David N. Gellman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08 - Publisher: LSU Press

GET EBOOK

An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. F
Freedom’s Gardener
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Myra B. Young Armstead
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-22 - Publisher: NYU Press

GET EBOOK

Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal.
The Other New York
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Joseph S. Tiedemann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

GET EBOOK

The Other New York provides the first comprehensive look at New York State's rural areas during the American Revolution. This county-by-county survey of the reg
African Founders
Language: en
Pages: 960
Authors: David Hackett Fischer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-31 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and thei