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"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. Some two hundred and sixty thousand men, women, and children - a twelfth of the population of New York, the nation's most populous state - worked this land as tenants.
Beginning in 1839, these tenants created a movement dedicated to destroying the estates and distributing the land to those who farmed it. The "anti-rent" movement quickly became one of the most powerful and influential popular movements of the antebellum era.".
"Deftly interweaving an engaging narrative history with broad-ranging social and political analysis, Land and Freedom brings to life the voices of antebellum northern farmers as they debated the critical social and political issues of their day. It grounds those debates in a detailed analysis of social and political change on New York's estates, and demonstrates the impact of farmers' ideas and initiatives on the broader social and political order.
In doing so, it offers new insight into the social and political thought of northeastern farmers, the extent and limits of popular political power under the Jacksonian political order, and the social origins of free-labor ideology and the Republican party."--BOOK JACKET.
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19th century, Agriculture, Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Agriculture, Land tenure, Politics and government, Agriculture, economic aspects, united states, New york (state), politics and government, New york (state), history, HistoryPlaces
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Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York
May 24, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
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Land and freedom: rural society, popular protest, and party politics in antebellum New York
2000, Oxford University Press
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"In early November 1785, Stephen Van Rensselaer turned 21 and inherited the Manor House, a Georgian granite and marble structure overlooking the Troy Road in Watervliet."
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