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Freedom's Gardener

James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America

Автор: Myra Beth Young Armstead

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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In 1793 James F. Brown was born a slave and in 1868 he died a free man. At age 34 he ran away from h...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Myra Beth Young Armstead

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2012

страници

219

EAN

9780814705100

ISBN

0814705103

Enbook ID

04930649

Издател

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

439

Размери

153 x 229 x 14

Пълно описание

In 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 spend the remainder of his life in upstate New York's Hudson Valley, where he was employed as a gardener by the wealthy, Dutch-descended Verplanck family on their estate in Fishkill Landing. Two years after his escape, he began a diary that he kept until two years before his death. In Freedom's Gardener, Myra B. Young Armstead uses seemingly small details from Brown's diariesoentries about weather, gardening, steamboat schedules, the Verplancks' social life, and other largely domestic mattersoto construct a bigger story about the development of national citizenship in the United States in the years predating the Civil War. Brown's experience of upward mobility demonstrates the power of freedom as a legal state, the cultural meanings attached to free labour using horticulture as a particular example, and the effectiveness of the vibrant political and civic sphere characterizing the free, democratic practices begun in the Revolutionary period and carried into the young nation. In this first detailed historical study of Brown's diaries, Armstead thus utilizes Brown's life to more deeply 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.