“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 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 Verplanck's
social life, and other largely domestic matters—to 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 labor
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.”
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