with Amy Godine

April 25, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.

refreshments from 5:00 p.m.

Old Chapel

This event is free and open to the public.

Books will be available for purchase.

Amy Godine, author of The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier, speaks about the Black pioneers who came to the Adirondack wilderness before the Civil War to farm and gain the right to vote. For well over a century, historians marginalized this abolitionist-founded Black farm colony, focusing instead on the pioneers’  famous neighbor, the abolitionist John Brown. Godine’s immersive story returns the Black homesteaders to the center of their history and reveals an Adirondacks distinguished by racial diversity and integrated community-building — a fresh and unexpected view.