Black Walden : : Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts / / Elise Lemire.
Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revoluti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Memory of These Human inhabitants
- Chapter one. Squire Cuming
- Chapter two The Codman Place
- Chapter three. British Grenadiers
- Chapter four. The last of the race Departed
- Chapter five. Permission to live in Walden Woods
- Chapter six. Little Gardens and Dwellings
- Chapter seven. Concord Keeps its Ground
- Epilogue. Brister Freeman's Hill
- Dramatis Personae
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments