An Enduring Legacy: What an antebellum Black Adirondack farm colony can teach us about diversity, equity and inclusion in 2024.

About Amy Godine: 

Independent scholar Amy Godine has been lecturing and writing about Adirondack ethnic, Black, migratory, and labor history since 1989. Filmmaker Ken Burns has called her new book, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier, “a beautifully written, painstakingly researched, and uncommonly nuanced story, heretofore a footnote in the ongoing saga of race in America.