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

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armstead, Myra Beth Young, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
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