| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York. By Reeve Huston. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii, 291 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513600-4.)

Part of a wave of new scholarship on antebellum land reform movements, Reeve Huston's Land and Freedom recounts the story of New York's Anti-Renters. He chronicles the connections of grass-roots movement with the shifting soil of the second party system, documenting the way in which Anti-Renters forged surprising alliances with both Whigs and Democrats and emerged changed in the process. 1

The Anti-Renters were islands of tenantry in a sea of freeholders. They had long coexisted with their Dutch patroon landlords in relationships of negotiation and deference, but beginning in the 1820s and 1830s this regime deteriorated. A new generation of landlords, their property no longer protected by entail, sought to collect back rents at full value. Declining crop prices made the rents a greater burden for tenants, who attempted to protect themselves. They challenged the landlords' titles, intimidated local law enforcement officials, and finally attempted to elect politicians who would protect their interests. . . .

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