Download or read book Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate New York written by Judith Wellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district.African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this book focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities. At the cutting edge of revolutions in transportation and industry, these ordinary citizenstried to maintain a balance between stability and change.