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Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armstead, Myra Beth Young, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868.
- Brown, James Francis.
- African Americans--Social conditions--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--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.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A fascinating study of freedom and slavery, told through the life of an escaped slave who built a life in the Hudson ValleyIn 1793 James F. Brown was born a slave, and in 1868 he died a free man. At age 34 he ran away from his native Maryland to pass the remainder of his life as a gardener to a wealthy family in the Hudson Valley. Two years after his escape and manumission, he began a diary which he kept until his death. In Freedom’s Gardener, Myra B. Young Armstead uses the apparently small and domestic details of Brown’s diaries to construct a bigger story about the transition from slavery to freedom.In this first detailed historical study of Brown’s diaries, Armstead utilizes Brown’s life to illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years. That Brown, an African American and former slave, serves as such a case study underscores the potential of American citizenship during his lifetime.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Life as a slave
- pt. 2. Free man and free laborer
- pt. 3. Free man and citizen.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-0792-0
- OCLC:
- 774293613
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