Freedom’s Gardener : : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America / / Myra B. Young Armstead.
A fascinating study of freedom and slavery, told through the life of an escaped slave who built a life in the Hudson ValleyIn 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 weal...
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Year of Publication: | 2012 |
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