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Freedom’s Gardener : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814705100
  • 9780814707920
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635.092 23
LOC classification:
  • F127.H8 A76 2012
  • F127.H8 A76 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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.
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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.

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