Freedom’s Gardener : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America /
Armstead, Myra B. Young
Freedom’s Gardener : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I . LIFE AS A SLAVE -- 1 What Can a Man Do? -- 2 Into the Promised Land -- PART II . FREE MAN AND FREE LABORER -- 3 A Horticultural Community -- 4 A Gardening Career -- 5 Cultural Meanings of Gardening -- 6 Escaping Wage Slavery -- PART III . FREE MAN AND CITIZEN -- 7 A Whiggish Sensibility -- 8 James F. Brown, Voting Rights Politics, and Antislavery Activism -- 9 The Informal Politics of Association -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814705100 9780814707920
10.18574/nyu/9780814705100.001.0001 doi
2011028251
African Americans--Social conditions--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--19th century.
Free Black people--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
Free blacks--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
Fugitive slaves--Maryland--Biography.
Gardeners--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
F127.H8 / A76 2012 F127.H8 / A76 2016
635.092
Freedom’s Gardener : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I . LIFE AS A SLAVE -- 1 What Can a Man Do? -- 2 Into the Promised Land -- PART II . FREE MAN AND FREE LABORER -- 3 A Horticultural Community -- 4 A Gardening Career -- 5 Cultural Meanings of Gardening -- 6 Escaping Wage Slavery -- PART III . FREE MAN AND CITIZEN -- 7 A Whiggish Sensibility -- 8 James F. Brown, Voting Rights Politics, and Antislavery Activism -- 9 The Informal Politics of Association -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814705100 9780814707920
10.18574/nyu/9780814705100.001.0001 doi
2011028251
African Americans--Social conditions--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--19th century.
Free Black people--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
Free blacks--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
Fugitive slaves--Maryland--Biography.
Gardeners--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
F127.H8 / A76 2012 F127.H8 / A76 2016
635.092