Author: Judith Wellman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1317775759

Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district.African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this book focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities. At the cutting edge of revolutions in transportation and industry, these ordinary citizenstried to maintain a balance between stability and change.