Discovering Black Vermont: African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 1790-1890 Books By a prize-winning historian: The

By a prize-winning historian: The dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America

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Instead concentrating on the war as a whole and its political and economic impacts on Britain and America and consequently how each commander's strategy was affected

did not share his subjects’ politics

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Discovering Black Vermont: African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 1790-1890 Books By a prize-winning historian: TheElise A. Guyette tells the story of three generations of free African Americans trying to build a life and community in northern Vermont in the years following statehood. By piecing together fragments of the history of free blacks in Vermonttax and estate records, journals, diaries, and the likethe author recovers what is essentially a lost world, establishing a framework for using primary sources to document a forgotten past. The book is an