Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley write by Michael E. Groth. This book was released on 2017-04-17. Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Forging Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley
Forging Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forging Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley write by Michael Edward Groth. This book was released on 1994. Forging Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors write by Thomas S. Wermuth. This book was released on 2001-10-05. Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.
Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area
Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area write by Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. This book was released on 2016-07-07. Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New for 2016, a completely updated guide to the Heritage Sites of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area Traveling down the Hudson River, named by Native Americans the river that flows both ways, you discover people, places, and events that made American history. The cultural, historic, and scenic resources of the Hudson Valley are so numerous, so varied, and so compelling that its no wonder Congress recognized the Hudson River Valley as a National Heritage Area in 1996. The National Park Service called the region the landscape that defined America and characterized the valley as an exceptionally scenic landscape that has provided the setting and inspiration for new currents of American thought, art, and history. Its political importance was demonstrated early in our history when the river played a critical role in the Revolutionary War. The many streams and waterfalls of the tributaries of the Hudson River powered early sawmills and gristmills. The river and its landscapes inspired the Hudson River school of painters. Sublime and picturesque paintings by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Asher Durand depicted this unique American landscape for the world to witness. Industrialists and commercial leaders like William and John D. Rockefeller, Frederick Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, and Ogden Mills built their great estates along the Hudson River. The second edition includes completely updated user-friendly design and vibrant photography; heritage site pages that include brief descriptions, contact information, and accessibility site characteristics; and National Park Service Passport Stamp locations with new cancellation stamp pages for your collection. Heritage sites in this guidebook are associated with areas of interest and categorized as must see, best bet, or special interest to make it easy to explore the stories of the Hudson River Valley. Heritage sites are also organized by geography and proximity to make it easy to find heritage sites nearby.
Freedom’s Gardener
Freedom’s Gardener - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom’s Gardener write by Myra B. Young Armstead. This book was released on 2013-06-22. Freedom’s Gardener available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal.
