Freedom's Gardener : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.
2012
F127.H8 A76 2012
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Freedom's Gardener : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.
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9780814707920
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814705100.001.0001 doi
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F127.H8 A76 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
635.092
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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Table of 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
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