The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice in the Adirondack Frontier 

with author Amy Godine

The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (Cornell, November, 2023) chronicles the dramatic history of Black pioneers in New York’s northern wilderness. From the 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote.

With stories from her new book, Godine shares the history of Black pioneers who migrated to the Adirondack wilderness in the mid-19th century to build subsistence farms, claim the right to vote, and earn a name as community builders on a raw, obdurate frontier.

Buy the book at The Wild Supply Co. online here.

Event Cost: Free for members or with paid admission

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About the speaker:

Amy Godine is a 35-year contributor to Adirondack Life magazine and the author of the recent history book, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier. A speaker, writer, and scholar of Adirondack social history, her focus has been on ethnic groups and marginalized communities inside the Blue Line. Her exhibition, Dreaming of Timbuctoo, about an abolitionist-founded Black farm community in North Elba, is viewable at the John Brown Farm State Historic site outside Lake Placid.