Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine

Casper, Scott E.

ISBN 10: 0809084147 ISBN 13: 9780809084142

Published by Hill and Wang (2008) New York

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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine

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Hill and Wang (2008) New York

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0809084147

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9780809084142

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A revisionist study of Mount Vernon draws on the experiences of former slave Sarah Johnson, who spent more than fifty years at the home of America's first president, both before and after emancipation, to describe the contributions of hundreds of African Americans in creating the legacy of Mount Vernon as an American shrine.

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Scott E. Casper is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of Constructing American Lives, which won the 1999 Book History Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

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