Author: Horticultural Society of New York (NEW YORK)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Proceedings of the New-York Horticultural Society at the celebration of the tenth anniversary, August 26, 1828
Author: Horticultural Society of New York (NEW YORK)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Freedom's Gardener
Author: Myra Beth Young ArmsteadPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814705103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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 diaries--entries about weather, gardening, steamboat schedules, the Verplancks' social life, and other largely domestic matters--to construct a bigger story about the development of national citizenship in the United States in the years predating the Civil War. Brown's experience of upward mobility demonstrates the power of freedom as a legal state, the cultural meanings attached to free labour using horticulture as a particular example, and the effectiveness of the vibrant political and civic sphere characterizing the free, democratic practices begun in the Revolutionary period and carried into the young nation. In this first detailed historical study of Brown's diaries, Armstead thus utilizes Brown's life to more deeply illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years. That Brown, an African American and former slave, serves as such a case study underscores the potential of American citizenship during his lifetime.
Freedom’s Gardener
Author: Myra B. Young ArmsteadPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
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 pass the remainder of his life as a gardener to a wealthy family in the Hudson Valley. Two years after his escape and manumission, he began a diary which he kept until his death. In Freedom’s Gardener, Myra B. Young Armstead uses the apparently small and domestic details of Brown’s diaries to construct a bigger story about the transition from slavery to freedom. In this first detailed historical study of Brown’s diaries, Armstead utilizes Brown’s life to illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years. That Brown, an African American and former slave, serves as such a case study underscores the potential of American citizenship during his lifetime.
Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation).
Author: Astor LibraryCatalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryNineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870 ( v.)
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Intellectual and Moral Resources of Horticulture
Author: Catalogue of the Library
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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