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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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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 BROWN, JAM    Check Shelf
Description x, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject 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.
ISBN 9780814705100 cloth alkaline paper
0814705103 cloth alkaline paper
9780814707913 ebook
0814707912 ebook
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0814707920 ebook
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