Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.
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TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780814707920
- 0814707920
- 0814705103
- 9780814705100
- 9780814707913
- 0814707912
- Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868
- Brown, James Francis, 1793-1868
- African Americans -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Free Black people -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Biography
- Gardeners -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Biography
- Fugitive slaves -- Maryland -- Biography
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- 19th century
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Biography
- Noirs américains -- Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Noirs affranchis -- Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) -- Biographies
- Jardiniers -- Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) -- Biographies
- Esclaves fugitifs -- Maryland -- Biographies
- Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology
- GARDENING -- Regional -- General
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Free Black people
- Fugitive slaves
- Gardeners
- Maryland
- United States -- Hudson River Valley
- 1800-1899
- 635.092 B 23
- F127.H8 A76 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Life as a slave -- pt. 2. Free man and free laborer -- pt. 3. Free man and citizen.
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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