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The personal memoir of Charles McCURDY who, as a boy witnessed THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG during THE AMERICAN CIVIL war. Originally published in 1929, this edition faithfully reprints the original with pictoral enhancements to aid the reader.

A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York's bellwether constitutional convention of 1846, to wrestle with two difficult problems of social policy. One was how to put down violent tenant resistance to the enforcement of landlord property and contract rights. The second was how to abolish the archaic...