Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1792
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: EDA Directory of Approved Projects
Author: United States. Economic Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division
Author: National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
Author: The Bicentennial of the United States of America
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976..
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Designation of Dredged Material Disposal Sites in Central and Western Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York
Author: Naval Submarine Base, New London
Author: Geomorphic Analysis of Mattituck Inlet and Goldsmith Inlet, Long Island, New York
Author: Michael J. MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomorphology
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Rising Generation
Author: Sarah L. H. GronningsaterPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512826324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a generation of black New Yorkers. Born into precarious freedom after the American Revolution and reaching adulthood in the lead-up to the Civil War, this remarkable generation ultimately played an outsized role in political and legal conflicts over slavery’s future, influencing both the nation’s path to the Civil War and changes to the US Constitution. Through exhaustive research in archives across New York State, where the largest enslaved population in the North resided at the time of the American Revolution, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater begins by exploring how English colonial laws shaped late eighteenth-century gradual abolition acts that freed children born to enslaved mothers. The boys and girls affected by these laws were born into a quasi-free legal status. They were technically not enslaved but were nonetheless required to labor as servants until they reached adulthood. Parents, teachers, and mentors of these “children of gradual abolition” found multiple ways to protect and nurture the boys and girls in their midst. They supported and founded schools, formed ties with white lawyers and abolitionists, petitioned local and state officials for better laws, guarded against kidnapping and cruelty, and shaped New York’s evolving identity as a free state. Black fathers used their votes during annual state elections in the early 1800s to influence legislative antislavery efforts. After many but not all black men in the state were disfranchised by a race-based property requirement in 1822, black citizens across New York organized to regain equal suffrage and to expand and protect other crucial, non-gendered features of state citizenship. Women and children were critical participants in these efforts. Gronningsater shows how, as the children of gradual abolition reached adulthood, they took the lessons of their youth into midcentury campaigns for legal equality, political inclusion, equitable common school education, and the expansion of freedom across the nation.