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North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom
Contributor(s): Sernett, Milton (Author)

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 ISBN: 081562915X     ISBN-13: 9780815629153
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
OUR PRICE: $12.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2001
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Annotation: This compelling and wide-ranging history examines the moral choices made by blacks and whites of New York State to aid the newly freed slaves and to secure the promise of freedom.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | American Government - State
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Political Science | Civil Rights
Dewey: 326.809
LCCN: 00068773
Series: New York State History and Culture
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (1.20 lbs) 372 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Academic
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - New York
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 09/01/2002 pg. 170
 
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Publisher Description:
The compelling and wide-ranging tale that examines the moral choices made by blacks and whites of New York State to aid the newly freed slaves to secure the promise of freedom. The North Star was both an astronomical reference guiding slaves north to freedom, and a symbol of the moral enterprise that sought to end slavery. This crusade for freedom in the north was born of the religious revivals of the 1820s and 1830s in central and western New York - known as the Burned-Over District, which lit the fires that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett begins with a history of slavery in upstate New York and ends with John Brown's execution and burial in the Adirondacks. He includes great abolitionists - among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Lougen, and Samuel May - and many lesset-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom.
 
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