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Land and Freedom

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Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York by Reeve Huston
English | 1 Sept. 2000 | ISBN: 0195136004 | 304 Pages | PDF | 3 MB

During the early nineteenth-century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families. Along the Hudson Valley and across the Catskills lay the great estates of the Van Rensselaers, the Livingstons, and a dozen lesser landlords.