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(SOCIOLOGY.) THE “JACKSON
WHITES.”
Collection of material on the
Ramapo, New York/New Jersey ethnic
group.
Original typescripts, photographs,
newspaper clippings etc. Housed in a spiral
bound notebook.
SHOULD BE SEEN
New York/New Jersey, Ramapos, circa
1900-1950’s
[800/1,200]
Someone’s careful accumulation of material on
these much misunderstood and oft-times
maligned people, with a good deal of original
typed manuscript included.
In a remote portion of New Jersey’s Ramapo
Mountains, bordering on New York’s Rockland
County, there exists a unique, ethnically mixed
group. The history of this group, the so-called
“Jackson Whites,” goes back more than two
centuries, but the earliest printed mention of this
reclusive people is to be found in an article enti-
tled “A Community of Outcasts” in Appleton’s
Journal of Literature, Science and Art, dated 23
March, 1872. Subsequent writing on them has
been largely negative hinting at terrible inbreed-
ing to the point of mutation.
These people are an ethnic mixture of indige-
nous Ramapo Indians, runaway slaves and
early Dutch and Hessians residents of Southern
New York. They had remained essentially iso-
lated until the 1950’s, when some of the
children started attending the regular schools.
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(SOCIOLOGY.) DU BOIS, W.E.B. AND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
The
Negro in the South. His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and
Religious Development. Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year
1907.
222 pages. 8vo, original deep blue cloth, lettered in white on the spine; some very
light wear; one tiny nick to the bottom of the front board.
Philadelphia: Jacobs, 1907
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC PHILOSOPHICAL CONFRONTATION
between Booker T.
Washington’s “Boot-Strap” approach versus W. E. B. Du Bois’ more militant vision.