|通过崔西Cothran |
I’m just back from vacation in the Adirondacks, in northern New York—what a beautiful place! If you like to hike, kayak, run, bike, or fish, this is a great location for all of them.
作为一个历史爱好者，我做了点前往普莱西德湖的约翰·布朗农场外面，我很高兴我做到了。从19世纪50年代这个历史古迹是由一个非常温和的房子，谷仓，和约翰·布朗（和几个家人和朋友）的墓地中。布朗是一个坚定的废奴主义者，谁走遍全国传播这个信息，所以他没有在农场花太多的时间，虽然他的妻子和孩子一样。他对哈珀斯费里命运多舛的空袭是一个历史的书籍，虽然不成功，在许多人的生命（包括布朗自己）的成本，该事件所服务的1860总统大选前煽动紧张局势，促进奴隶制的终结。
I learned two really interesting things at the farm. First, Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes’ mother was first married to one of John Brown’s raiders—a curious connection! Also, Brown located his farm in this part of New York to support Timbuctoo. What’s Timbuctoo? Well, 19th-century philanthropist and reformer Gerrit Smith gave away 120,000 acres of land around Lake Placed to African Americans for cultivation—this community was dubbed Timbuctoo. While African-American men legally had the right to vote at the time in New York state, there was a voting requirement—ownership of $250 worth of land—that excepted most of them from exercising that right. Smith saw this land grant as an opportunity for enfranchisement and independence of some 3,000 families. Brown wanted to help these families establish their farms, so he moved his family there. Unfortunately, this effort wasn’t sustainable, some say due to soil inhospitable to crops, but it’s an interesting bit of history—and some families who settled there did indeed stay and their descendants remain today.
想了解更多？内战爱好者和学生可以了解各种大风这些主题资源，检查出来：金宝搏彩票
- U.S. History In Context的约翰·布朗专题页面
- 简历在上下文的Gerrit Smith article
- 一般OneFile’sarticle on John Brown’s Moonlight March
- GVRL的电子书：American Civil War Reference Library
- Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History’sJohn Brown’s last speech
- 文献资源中心的NPR broadcast:庆祝兰斯顿·休斯的遗产
Harpers Ferry, from National Geographic Magazine, March 1957, Vol. CXI, Issue Three, p.399+.
关于作者
Traci Cothran is a manager in Gale’s Database Program and a history buff, so she can often be found watching videos from the early 1900s in Gale’s世界历史融会贯通。