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Author Svenson, Sally E., author.

Title Blacks in the Adirondacks : a history / Sally E. Svenson ; with an afterword by Alice Paden Green.

Publication Info. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
©2017
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xv, 363 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Slavery: backdrop to the Adirondack story -- Gerrit Smith: Essex and Franklin County colonists -- Soldiers of the Civil War -- Wartime and early postwar migration -- Making a living -- Railroad building -- The summer resort industry -- Resort entertainment: employees and students -- Baseball, and a little basketball -- Saranac Lake and tuberculosis -- Community life in Saranac Lake -- Popular culture: professional performers -- Lake Placid and the John Brown Memorial Association -- Public and publicly supported institutions -- Miners of Moriah -- Pullman porters: railroad stories -- The twentieth-century military -- Tourism -- 1940 to 1950 and beyond.
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Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains -- History.
African Americans.
New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains.
History.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains -- Biography.
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Local history.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Svenson, Sally E. Blacks in the Adirondacks. First edition. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2017 9780815635550 (DLC) 2017036168
ISBN 9780815654216 (electronic book)
0815654219 (electronic book)
9780815635550 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780815610939 (paperback) (alkaline paper)

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