Description
An impressive work of historical recovery, Discovering Black Vermont tells the tale of three generations of free blacks seeking to build a life and community in northern Vermont within the years following statehood. By piecing together fragments of the history of free blacks in Vermont—tax and estate records, journals, diaries, and so forth—the creator recovers what is essentially a lost world, setting up a framework for the usage of number one sources to document a forgotten past. The book is a useful resource for the ones conducting local history research and will serve as inspiration for high school and college students and their teachers.