Freedomas Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America

by Myra B. Young Armstead

Book Overview

A fascinating study of freedom and slavery, told through the life of an escaped slave who built a life in the Hudson Valley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814705103
• ISBN13: 9780814705100
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"