Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon
Subtitle: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780809084142
Subjects: United States History (General); Virginia - Local History; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - South; Social Science / African-American Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; 19th century; African American families; African Americans; Biography; History; Mount Vernon (Estate); Virginia
Description: Historian Casper relates the complex tale of Mount Vernon's triple identities, home, workplace, and enduring, malleable national symbol, via the lives of its black workers and residents, slave and free, and its owners while he restores African-Americans' essential roles as actors<U+2014>both as historical persons doing the work of maintaining Mount Vernon and as theater, today playing the roles that maintain an illusion of 18th-century accuracy.