Freedom's gardener : James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America / Myra B. Young Armstead.
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...
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