"Fugitive slaves" . . "Freedom's gardener James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America" . "Freedom's gardener James F. Brown, horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in antebellum America"@en . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "Freedom's Gardener : James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America"@en . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . "Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal." . "History" . . . . . . . . . . . "Biography" . "Biography"@en . . . . . "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 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 diariesoentries about weather, gardening, steamboat schedules, the Verplancks' social life, and other large."@en . "Gardeners" . . "1800 - 1899" . . . . "Maryland" . . "Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)" . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology." . . "United States" . . "African Americans Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Social conditions 19th century." . . "Gardeners Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Biography." . . "GARDENING Regional General." . . "African Americans Social conditions" . . "Free blacks Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Biography." . . "Free blacks" . . "Fugitive slaves Maryland Biography." . .