Black Walden : Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts /

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Charting the rise and fall of a community of former slaves struggling to survive on the fringes of Concord, Massachusetts, Black Walden reveals the role that slavery and its aftermath played in forming Thoreau's beloved Walden landscape.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lemire, Elise Virginia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862. > Walden.
Walden (Thoreau, Henry David)
Social conditions
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Esclaves > Massachusetts > Concord > Conditions sociales.
Slaves > Massachusetts > Concord > Social conditions.
Slavery > Massachusetts > Concord > History.
Massachusetts > Concord.
Concord (Mass.) > Social conditions > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The memory of These human inhabitants
  • Squire Cuming
  • The Codman Place
  • British grenadiers
  • The last of the race departed
  • Permission to live in Walden Woods
  • Little gardens and dwellings
  • Concord keeps its ground
  • Brister Freeman's hill.

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