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Author Armstead, Myra Beth Young, 1954-

Title Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Life as a slave -- pt. 2. Free man and free laborer -- pt. 3. Free man and citizen.
Summary 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 large.
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Subject Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868.
Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868.
Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868.
Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868.
African Americans -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African Americans.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Free Black people -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Biography.
Free Black people.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Gardeners -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Biography.
Gardeners.
Fugitive slaves -- Maryland -- Biography.
Fugitive slaves.
Maryland.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- 19th century.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Armstead, Myra Beth Young, 1954- Freedom's gardener. New York : New York University Press, ©2012 9780814705100 (DLC) 2011028251 (OCoLC)724667171
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