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Plantations, Slavery & Freedom on Maryland's Eastern Shore

By: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg

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Plantations, Slavery & Freedom on Maryland's Eastern Shore

By: Jacqueline Simmons 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.

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Arcadia Publishing

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146714102X

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9781467141024

Hoopers Island's Changing Face

By: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg

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Hoopers Island's Changing Face

By: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg

Travel back to Hoopers Island's beginnings in the 1600s and discover how much different it is today. One of the oldest settlements in Maryland is a small tidewater community on the Eastern Shore named Hoopers Island. Land was patented there in 1659, and families who owned the original plantations have continued to reside there for generations. Economic changes in the 18th century contributed to both isolation and a unique style of life. By the late 19th century, farmers had turned to the sea to make their living and the community became known for its seafood. Island watermen continue to harvest the products of the Chesapeake, and local factories deliver seafood daily throughout the region. Hoopers Island today, however, has a different look than it did even 50 years ago. The high school has been transformed into a fine restaurant, and an old marine railway has become a modern boatyard and marina. While the native population has declined, others have retired to the area, and the island is becoming a vacation destination.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467116254

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9781467116251

Hoopers Island: Glimpses of the Past

By: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg

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Hoopers Island: Glimpses of the Past

By: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg

This is a collection of essays about events that occurred on Hoopers Island, Maryland, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some concern newsworthy events. Others describe the cultural life of the Island or its connection to America's military history. The final essays are memories of the author's life on Hoopers Island.

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160

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Lulu.com

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1304423344

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9781304423344

Roger Hooper and the Sheriff: Hoopers Island's First One Hundred Years

By: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg

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Roger Hooper and the Sheriff: Hoopers Island's First One Hundred Years

By: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg

History of the first 100 years of the settlement of Hoopers Island in Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Based on an event from January 1753, reported in the records of the Maryland Assembly, in which the sheriff charges tobacco planter Roger Hooper with unpaid quit-rents and threatens to seize two of Hooper's slaves. On a small scale, ROGER HOOPER AND THE SHERIFF is the story of one colonial tidewater family who settled on an island on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. On a larger canvas, through the story of this family, one can learn about the development of colonial Maryland--the difficulties the pioneers experienced, their relationship to the Indians, the importance of tobacco, the change to slave labor, the deterioriation of religious toleration, the role of women, and, finally, the economic changes that eventually isolated one side of the Bay from the other.

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