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2012

Format:	Book
Author:	Armstead, Myra Beth Young, 1954- author.
Title:	Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.
Publisher, Date:	New York : New York University Press, [2012] ©2012
Description:	x, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary:	Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal.
Subjects:	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.
Other Author:	NYU Press, publisher.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Life as a slave. What can a man do? ; Into the promised land -- Free man and free laborer. A horticultural community ; A gardening career ; Cultural meanings of gardening ; Escaping wage slavery -- Free man and citizen. A Whiggish sensibility ; James F. Brown, voting rights politics, and antislavery activism ; The informal politics of association.
LCCN:	2011028251
ISBN:	9780814705100 0814705103 9781479825233 1479825239
Other Number:	724667171
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Control Number:	320148
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Call Number:	635.092 Armstead

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