Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon

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.

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

Hill and Wang

Editions

3

Pages

320

ISBN

9780809084142

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