Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History tells the story of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region of northeaste

The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. The small Adiro

The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans

Historical and archaeological records show that racism and white supremacy defined the social fabric of the northeastern states as much as they did the Deep Sou

The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.