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Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate New York
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Road to Seneca Falls
Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of this historic meeting in its contemporary context. _x000B__x000B_The convention succeeded by uniting powerful elements of the antislavery movement, radical Quakers, and the campaign for legal reform under a common cause. Wellman shows that these three strands converged not only in Seneca Falls, but also in the life of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is this convergence, she argues, that foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times. _x000B__x000B_Rather than working heavy-handedly downward from their official \"Declaration of Sentiments,\" Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Her approach results in a satisfying combination of social, community, and reform history with individual and collective biographical elements. _x000B__x000B_The Road to Seneca Falls challenges all of us to reflect on what it means to be an American trying to implement the belief that \"all men and women are created equal,\" both then and now. A fascinating story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender.
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Grass Roots Reform in the Burned-Over District of Upstate New York
Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district. African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this work focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities. At the cutting edge of revolutions in transportation and industry, these ordinary citizens tried to maintain a balance between stability and change.
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Grassroots Reform in the Burned-Over District of Upstate New York
Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district.African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this book focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities.
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The Underground Railroad and the National Register of Historic Places: historical vs. architectural integrity
Discusses efforts by the Oswego County Freedom Trail Commission and Committee to identify and document UGRR sites in central New York state, and propose them for inclusion in the National Register.
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The Underground Railroad and the National Register of Historic Places: Historical Importance vs. Architectural Integrity
[...]Grants granddaughter, Frances O. Grant, recalled that many a time, her father (George Tudors son) told her of waking up at night and seeing these slaves taken out of haycarts, and all smuggled over the border.12Charles Smith was another Maryland-born African American barber in Oswego in the 1850s. [...]among the African-American community, barbers and those associated with waterfront and lake activities (including sailors, cooks on steamboats, laborers, and cart men) seem to have played key roles in underground railroad activity. [...]a variety of sites might be linked into a national network.15In 1998, Congress authorized the creation of just such a network in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act. In terms of integrity, we need to balance our desire for physical integrity with our pressing need to preserve material culture resources that document and help us interpret a very important part of our history. Because of its unique position as the keeper of the only coordinated listing of sites important to our local, state, and national history, the National Register of Historic Places may provide the best way to highlight the importance of the diverse places associated with the underground railroad in the United States.26.
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