Black Pioneers in New York’s Adirondack Wilderness: A 19th-Century Encounter
VirtualIn 1846 and 1847, three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. On their new land they could hope to meet the $250 property requirement New York imposed on Black prospective voters in 1821, and gain a […]