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Freedom's Gardener
Myra Beth Young Armstead
其他書名
James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America
出版NYU Press, 2012
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & BlackBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & TechnologyGardening / Essays & NarrativesGARDENING / Regional / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)History / WorldHistory / African American & BlackSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)
ISBN08147079209780814707920
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iFk3qlcohI4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 diariesoentries about weather, gardening, steamboat schedules, the Verplancks' social life, and other largely domestic mattersoto 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.