Plantations, Slavery and Freedom on Maryland's Eastern Shore (American Heritage) by Jacqueline Hedberg

Plantations, Slavery and Freedom on Maryland's Eastern Shore (American Heritage) by Jacqueline Hedberg

The riveting, heart wrenching story of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage on Maryland's eastern shore.

African Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland became a slave society in colonial days when tobacco ruled. Some enslaved people, like Anthony Johnson, earned their freedom and became successful farmers. After the Revolutionary War, others were freed by masters disturbed by the contradiction between liberty and slavery. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman ran from masters on the Eastern Shore and devoted their lives to helping other enslaved people with their words and deeds. Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg uses local records, including those of her ancestors, to tell a tale of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage.

Simmons Hedberg, Jacqueline: - Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg was born on Hoopers Island, where her family has lived for more than 300 years. In 2000, she organized the Friends of the Old Hoopers Island Graveyard to save an Endangered Maryland Treasure on Upper Hoopers Island. She is also the author of a genealogy, A Family of the Chesapeake: Edward Simmons of Dorchester County, Maryland, and His Descendants. The author s family and friends have provided her with a rich collection of both photographs and stories that help to capture the life of Hoopers Island that once was.

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ISBN 13	9781467141024
ISBN 10	146714102X
Title	Plantations, Slavery and Freedom on Maryland's Eastern Shore (American Heritage)
Author	Jacqueline Hedberg
Series	American Heritage Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	History Press
Year published	2019-01-21
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