GUSN-367338
232 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm, 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.
Walden (Thoreau, Henry David)
Slavery History.
Enslaved persons Social conditions.
Slavery
Enslaved persons Social conditions
Social conditions
Social conditions 18th century.
Lemire, Elise Virginia.
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.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
232 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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.
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
Complimentary copy, 2009
9780812241808
0812241800
Stacks F74.C8 $b L46 2009
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden.
Massachusetts Concord
Concord (Mass.)
Massachusetts
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