The People of Rose Hill Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation【電子書籍】[ Lucy Maddox ]

＜p＞＜strong＞What was antebellum life like for the two communities of peopleーone white and one blackーwho lived and worked on a plantation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thomas Marsh Forman was in his early twenties when he returned from the Revolutionary War to take over the proprietorship of Rose Hill plantation from his father. The estate lay alongside the Sassafras River in Cecil County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Rose Hill was a product of its historical moment, a moment in which men like Forman acted on their belief that the future prospects of the country required a continuation not only of their energy, their skills, and their desire to improve the lives of Americans but also of the slave economy they had done so much to shape.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A focused study of this one plantation, ＜em＞The People of Rose Hill＜/em＞ illuminates the workings of the entire plantation system in the border region between the end of the Revolution and the approach of the Civil War. Lucy Madd．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る