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Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. 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. Thoreau was all but alone in his attempt "to conjure up the former occupants of these woods." Other than the chapter he devoted to them in __Walden__, the history of slavery in Concord has been all but forgotten. 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. After charting the rise of Concord slaveholder John Cuming, __Black Walden__ follows the struggles of Cuming's slave, Brister, as he attempts to build a life for hims

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Author

Lemire, Elise

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812204469

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13