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A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland For over 165 years, plantation owners in Southern Maryland depended on the labor of enslaved men, women, and children to bring in the tobacco crop. The photographs and stories in this book grew out of the author¿s quest to understand how these people, who were subjected to a system that made every attempt to brutalize and ...

A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland For over 165 years, plantation owners in Southern Maryland depended on the labor of enslaved men, women, and children to bring in the tobacco crop. The photographs and stories in this book grew out of the author¿s quest to understand how these people, who were subjected to a system that made every attempt to brutalize and ...

Provides a captivating, even pioneering approach to capturing the land and life of Maryland's "mother county”. Merideth Taylor integrates her own engaging photographs of buildings of all kinds, many of them in disrepair, with imaginative text called "ghost stories” that relate to the photographs. These stories are based on living oral histories that Taylor has heard over the years she has lived in the area.