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Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.
LIBRA F127.H8 A76 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armstead, Myra Beth Young, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868.
- Brown, James Francis.
- African Americans--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Social conditions--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Free Black people--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
- Free Black people.
- Gardeners--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
- Gardeners.
- Fugitive slaves--Maryland--Biography.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Social conditions.
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History--19th century.
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.).
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
- Maryland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Part I Life as a Slave
- 1 What Can a Man Do? 11
- 2 Into the Promised Land 28
- Part II Free Man and Free Laborer
- 3 A Horticultural Community 41
- 4 A Gardening Career 54
- 5 Cultural Meanings of Gardening, 70
- 6 Escaping Wage Slavery 88
- Part III Free Man and Citizen
- 7 A Whiggish Sensibility 99
- 8 James F. Brown, Voting Rights Politics, and Antislavery Activism 112
- 9 The Informal Politics of Association 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814705100
- 0814705103
- 9780814707913
- 0814707912
- 9780814707920
- 0814707920
- OCLC:
- 724667171
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