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Freedom’s Gardener
Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal.
Notes on New York
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Agriculture in America, 1622-1860
This catalogue is an alphabetical listing of those printed works issued before 1861 which relate to agriculture in the continental United States and whcih are held in any of these institutions.
Freedom's Gardener
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 t...
