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The Raging Erie
Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal
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Mark S. Ferrara
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
Mark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived, worked, and died along the banks of the Erie Canal, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation.
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Mark S. Ferrara is professor of English at the State University of New York. His recent books include American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living (2020) and Living the Food Allergic Life (2023).
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Ryan Dearinger, author of The Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West:
Ferrara reconsiders the Erie Canal by casting a wider net than any previous study. He argues that the canal failed as a creator of progress and a mystical "bond of Union" once we consider the homes, lives, labors, and livelihoods of those people most immediately affected by it. Through wonderful, sharp chapters focusing on Indigenous communities, immigrant workers, children and families, enslaved and free peoples, fugitives from slavery, foot soldiers in nineteenth-century social justice movements (like abolitionists), vice industries, and the poor and downtrodden, Ferrara questions the very nature of progress.
Ferrara reconsiders the Erie Canal by casting a wider net than any previous study. He argues that the canal failed as a creator of progress and a mystical "bond of Union" once we consider the homes, lives, labors, and livelihoods of those people most immediately affected by it. Through wonderful, sharp chapters focusing on Indigenous communities, immigrant workers, children and families, enslaved and free peoples, fugitives from slavery, foot soldiers in nineteenth-century social justice movements (like abolitionists), vice industries, and the poor and downtrodden, Ferrara questions the very nature of progress.
Richard S. Newman, author of Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present:
Ferrara has written a terrific and necessary book about the deeper depths of the Erie Canal and the underside of the American Dream. With the bicentennial of the great waterway upon us, The Raging Erie uncovers the lives of the many laboring people who are often castaways in America’s first transportation revolution. A must-read.
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eBook published on:
July 2, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780231561259
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