{"product_id":"mighty-change-tall-within-myra-b-young-armstead-9780791456712","title":"Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of African American presence in the Hudson Valley region from the colonial period to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing New York State's Hudson Valley as a backdrop, this book provides a regional perspective on black identity from the colonial period to the present. Through racialized struggles and varying experiences of black residents, a black presence in the region has persisted. Factors such as religious structures and cosmologies, ethnicity, legal systems, economic patterns, class, gender, family structures, and leaders have uniquely influenced black identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe religion-inspired metamorphosis of celebrated antebellum black resident Isabella Van Wagenen, later known as Sojourner Truth, illustrates how the abandonment of her slave identity and her refusal to call her new employer \"master,\" was a liberation for blacks-a \"mighty change.\" Moving from the colonial period to the present, this book underscores the mighty change in the identity of blacks in the region over nearly a four-hundred-year period-from captive to slave, from slave to free, from northern-born to southern-influenced, from pre-industrial to post-industrial, from multi-ethnic to multi-national. Like Isabella, in her successful determination to reclaim her son who had been wrongfully forced into slavery, black people within the region have stood \"tall within.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Myra B. Young Armstead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791456714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791456712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Myra B. Young Armstead","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096726479103,"sku":"9780791456712","price":104.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mighty-change-tall-within-myra-b-young-armstead-9780791456712","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}