Discovering Black Vermont: African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 1790-1890 Books This book is a lively

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Discovering Black Vermont: African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 1790-1890 Books This book is a livelyElise 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