A downrenter's son
By: by Ruth Hall.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Description: This novel presents a portrait of the Antirent War in the Hudson River Valley (1839-1846) that turned violent after thousands of tenant farmers began protesting the legacy of the Dutch patroonship system which had granted manorial rights over millions of acres of land to just a few rich hereditary landholders. Downrenters were those who refused to pay rent and held to the rights of the tenants to the land because they had occupied it for generations.