Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America
2012
923.673 B844ar 2012
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Title
Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America
Variant Title
James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America
Published
New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Description
x, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
923.673 B844ar 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)724667171
Note
Brown ran away from his native Maryland & employed as a gardner at Mount Gulian-the estate of the Verplanck family of Fishkill Landing in the Hudson River Valley.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-204) and index.
Contents: Pt. I. Life as a slave. What can a man do? -- Into the promised land -- pt. II. Free man and free laborer. A horticultural community -- A gardening career -- Cultural meanings of gardening -- Escaping wage slavery -- pt. III. Free man and citizen. A Whiggish sensibility -- James F. Brown, voting rights politics, and antislavery activism -- The informal politics of association.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-204) and index.
Contents: Pt. I. Life as a slave. What can a man do? -- Into the promised land -- pt. II. Free man and free laborer. A horticultural community -- A gardening career -- Cultural meanings of gardening -- Escaping wage slavery -- pt. III. Free man and citizen. A Whiggish sensibility -- James F. Brown, voting rights politics, and antislavery activism -- The informal politics of association.
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