TY - JOUR
AU - Ellis, Rex
AB - 822 The Journal of American History December 2008 only Burr, but also the politics of the early re- who manages to evolve despite the cultural, public. racial, and social realities of her times. The movement from slavery to freedom was slow Suzanne Geissler at Mount Vernon, in most cases deliberately William Paterson University so. The slowness was both self-imposed and Wayne, New Jersey premeditated. There were those in the Afri- can American community who embraced their Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten roles as stewards of a bygone era, as well as History of an American Shrine. By Scott E. those who refused to accept the social bound- Casper. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. xii, aries placed on them that their keepers were all 286 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8090-8414-2.) too eager to enforce. We learn that the creation and perpetuation of Mount Vernon’s environ- Scott E. Casper’s Sarah Johnson’s Mount Ver- ment experienced differing degrees of success non chronicles the transformation of George over the years. Casper allows us a peek into this Washington’s Mount Vernon from an aris- double-sided story and peels away the faded tocratic family dwelling to a historical place paint so that we can 
TI - Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine. By Scott E. Casper. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. xii, 286 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-8414-2.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/27694403
DA - 2008-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/sarah-johnson-s-mount-vernon-the-forgotten-history-of-an-american-l0JTOZlYPR
SP - 822
EP - 822
VL - 95
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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