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North Star Country
Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom
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Milton C. Sernett
Cloth $49.95L
| 0-8156-2914-1 | 2001
Paper $19.95s
| 0-8156-2915-X | 2001
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.
Description
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 lesser-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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Author
Milton C. Sernett is professor of African American studies and history and adjunct professor of religion at Syracuse University. He is the author of Abolition’s Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle, also by Syracuse University Press.
6 x 9, 256 pages, 30 illustrations, 1 map, 1 table, bibliography, notes, index
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Syracuse University Press
