The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier New_Release Digging on the outskirts of

Digging on the outskirts of the present-day Russian city of Ekaterin­burg

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with grace and insight

and connects us more meaningfully to ourselves and our surroundings

and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one’s community

The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier New_Release Digging on the outskirts ofWinner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Society Book AwardThe Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s to the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build the farms that helped them meet a $250 property requirement imposed on Black New York voters in 1821. Abolitionist Gerrit Smith gifted 120,000 acres to 3,000 landless Black New Yorkers, with the support of Frederick