North Star Country is the story of the remarkable transformation of Upstate New York's famous 'Burned over District;' where the flames of religious revival sparked an abolitionist movement that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett details the regional presence of African Americans from the pre-Revolutionary War era through the Civil War, both as champions of liberty and as beneficiaries of a humanitarian spirit generated from evangelical impulses. He includes in his narrative the struggles of great abolitionists—among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Loguen, and Samuel May—and of many lesser-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom both regionally and in the nation as a whole. Sernett concludes with a compelling examination of the moral choices made during the Civil War by upstate New Yorkers—both black and white—and of the post-Appomattox campaign to secure freedom for the newly emancipated.
DIVAn exploration of the way history, meaning, and memory have interacted in the process of transforming Harriet Tubman into an American icon and a figure of inspiration like Abraham Lincoln or Fredrick Douglass./div
Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer, and one of New York's most important abolitionists, this book is the first published history of Green and his attempt to create a model biracial society.
This bonanza of 260 short essays harvests the "Reflections" columns written by Dr. Milton Sernett over a period of more than a quarter century for the newsletter of Faith Lutheran Church, Cicero, New York. The essays, rooted in the author's memories of a Midwestern youth, his three decades as a professor of history and religion at Syracuse University, and his own faith pilgrimage among family and friends take their inspiration from John Wesley's famous metaphor of spiritual renewal--"Heart Strangely Warmed." They are a gift to all readers who too struggle with how to live a faith-centered life, preserving memories of the good and the true from the past while giving an authentic witness of Christian discipleship in the present moment.
DIVDiscusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churches and religions./div
Confined to an Iowa nursing home in 1960, a time-worn horseman seeks to educate his grandson about the transformation from horse farming to tractor farming (1900-1940)." --from back
This is the story behind the granite boulder that sits along Oxbow Road, about a quarter mile north of the Hamlet of Peterboro in the Town of Smithfield, Madison County, New York. Dedicated on August 17, 1929 by the New York Holstein-Friesian Association, the historical marker honors Gerrit Smith Miller, grandson of the famous abolitionist and reformer Gerrit Smith, for his pioneer work as a breeder of purebred Holstein cattle.
Abolitionists met on October 21, 1835, in Utica, NY, to form The New York State Anti-Slavery Society. Rioters forced them to go to Peterboro, New York, where Gerrit Smith welcomed them. This book tells the story of the Utica and Peterboro conventions and reproduces the Minutes of this historic event.
More than 88 milliion Americans can claim to be of German descent. My maternal great grantparents, Johannes and Katharina Berghöfer, came from Hesse Nassau, Germany, to the United States in 1880 with their five children. This book is both family history and an investigation of my German-American heritage. By the time that I was born in 1942 in Hampton, Iowa, the German culture which shaped my mother and her parents had all but disappeared. This book is written so that their story can be remembered by succeeding generations.
Mr. Batson has been writing poetry and putting his thoughts on paper since he was a young child on his beloved islands of Eastport, Maine and Campobello, Canada. This compilation traces the changes from childhood through present day and depicts his very heart, revealing innermost feelings and observations about life's lessons, adventures, joys, ardent hopes, trials and tribulations. His most ardent hope is that as he travels down life's numerous pathways the positive lessons learned will provide some illumination in a darkening world. Milton Joseph Batson Born in St. Stephens, New Brunswick, Mr. Batson was raised between Eastport, Maine, a small island community, where he enjoyed a Huckleberry Finn type lifestyle, roaming on frequent adventures with his best friend Paul Thompson, and Campobello Island, where his father was a friend of Franklin Roosevelt. Milton enjoys occasionally returning to Eastport for the Fourth of July celebration, which he says feels like going back to early 1900's America.
North Star Country is the story of the remarkable transformation of Upstate New York's famous 'Burned over District;' where the flames of religious revival sparked an abolitionist movement that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett details the regional presence of African Americans from the pre-Revolutionary War era through the Civil War, both as champions of liberty and as beneficiaries of a humanitarian spirit generated from evangelical impulses. He includes in his narrative the struggles of great abolitionists—among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Loguen, and Samuel May—and of many lesser-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom both regionally and in the nation as a whole. Sernett concludes with a compelling examination of the moral choices made during the Civil War by upstate New Yorkers—both black and white—and of the post-Appomattox campaign to secure freedom for the newly emancipated.
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