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 Gardener, Myra B. Young
Armstead uses the apparently small and domestic details of Brown's
diaries to construct a bigger story about the transition from
slavery to freedom. In this first detailed historical study of
Brown's diaries, Armstead utilizes Brown's life to 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.
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