| Description |
232 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-220) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. In Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century. --from publisher description |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- History.
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Slaves -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Social conditions.
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Concord (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden.
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| ISBN |
9780812241808 (alk. paper) |
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0812241800 (alk. paper) |
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