Summary of Kate Clifford Larson's Bound for the Promised Land

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Tubman’s story begins with a complicated set of relationships, black and white, between several generations of families living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
#2 Tubman’s story begins with the history of some of the white families who claimed ownership of her and her family. The detailed records of the lives of the white families who enslaved Tubman and her friends demonstrate the contrast between the lives of whites and blacks.
#3 Several documents did survive the fire, including the records of the Orphans Court from 1847 to 1852, which were saved because the clerk of the court brought the logbook home to work on it over the weekend.
#4 In 1797, Atthow Pattison, the patriarch of a long-established Eastern Shore family, died. He left his remaining slaves and livestock to his surviving daughter, Elizabeth, and her children. Rit’s and her children’s terms of service were limited to 45 years, in order for them to be eventually freed from slavery.

Sujets

• Ethnic
• Cultural
• Biography
• African American
• Regional
• Autobiography
• Black

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822509498
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Kate Clifford Larson's Bound for the Promised Land
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Tubman’s story begins with a complicated set of relationships, black and white, between several generations of families living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

#2

Tubman’s story begins with the history of some of the white families who claimed ownership of her and her family. The detailed records of the lives of the white families who enslaved Tubman and her friends demonstrate the contrast between the lives of whites and blacks.

#3

Several documents did survive the fire, including the records of the Orphans Court from 1847 to 1852, which were saved because the clerk of the court brought the logbook home to work on it over the weekend.

#4

In 1797, Atthow Pattison, the patriarch of a long-established Eastern Shore family, died. He left his remaining slaves and livestock to his surviving daughter, Elizabeth, and her children. Rit’s and her children’s terms of service were limited to 45 years, in order for them to be eventually freed from slavery.

#5

The Eastern Shore was a hotbed of manumission activity during the 1790s. While elite families still had control over the process, wealth could be achieved readily with the expanding production of wheat and other grains for export markets.

#6

The American Revolution and an increasing religious awakening sparked intense debate about the moral, political, and economic validity of slavery. While some slaveholders immediately freed their slaves, others sold their slaves for a limited term of years, putting cash in their pockets while assuaging their consciences by providing for eventual manumission.

#7

The Abolition Society argued that restrictions on the ability of a slaveholder to manumit his slaves was in direct conflict with the rights of free individuals to control their property. The law was changed in 1796 to allow manumissions for those slaves under forty-five, which was still a relatively advanced age.

#8

Mary Pattison Brodess, a granddaughter of Thomas Pattison, married Joseph Brodess, a local farmer, in 1800. They had a son, Edward, in 1801. Mary married Anthony Thompson, a moderately successful landowner, in 1803.

#9

The slave trade patterns in the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century offer some clues to Tubman’s African heritage. Modesty, or any one of Tubman’s other black grandparents, may have been taken as a child sometime during the mid-1700s while living on West Africa’s Gold Coast.

#10

The Asante were a West African people who were skilled at clearing land for small farms, and they were noted for the roles their women played as advisors and leaders in the community.

#11

The cultural traditions of West African peoples enslaved in the Chesapeake region and elsewhere may have persisted in the New World far longer than has previously been thought. Enslaved Africans from the Gold Coast brought an acute understanding of the role and significance of land with them to the New World.

#12

While the free black population grew in the Eastern Shore, their status did not improve. By 1810, they could no longer testify in court, and all free blacks were stripped of voting rights in 1802.

#13

The 1810 census showed that the Eastern Shore of Maryland was turning from a tobacco-based economy to one of grain and timber export. Many slave owners began to reduce their slave holdings to accommodate the shift.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Tubman was born in 1820, during the time when Anthony Thompson was legally bound to use Edward’s estate for the maintenance and education of his ward only. He was unable to repay Thompson for funds expended for the construction of a house, so he had to sell part of his land or some of his slaves.

#2

After the court case, Thompson lost his land to his stepson, Edward Brodess. Brodess moved into his new house in Bucktown sometime between early 1823 and early 1824, leaving behind the social and community network that surrounded Thompson's plantation in Peters Neck.

#3

Rit was probably hired out by her master, Edward Brodess, to help him run his farm. She may have lived in his barn, and the children may have lived in the kitchen house, but by 1830, Edward's growing family of small children in addition to nine slaves suggested that he had separate slave quarters.

#4

While Tubman may have had fond memories of playing with her baby brother, the dangers inherent in leaving such young children alone to fend for themselves must have weighed heavily on her mind.

#5

Anthony Thompson, the owner of Ben Ross, was a timber inspector and superintended the cutting and hauling of great quantities of timber for the Baltimore shipyards. He had long-standing familial and economic ties with many of these shipbuilding families.

#6

The building of canals and roads allowed for the easy transportation of timber to the Baltimore market. The harvesting of timber cleared great swaths of land for agricultural production.

#7

While some landowners were entrepreneurial and ambitious, many were not. Many sold their excess slave labor to slave traders, and by the mid-1810s, manumissions were on the wane. The American Colonization Society, founded in 1817 by prominent slaveholders, antislavery activists, and nonslaveholders alike, sought to establish a colony in Africa to resettle free blacks.

#8

The transformation of cash-crop agriculture on the Eastern Shore had dramatically changed the nature of slavery by the beginning of the nineteenth century. While some slaveholders were determined to sell their enslaved people within the community, the economic incentives were often too tempting for cash-strapped masters.

#9

The Pattison family, the Thompsons, and the Stewarts all practiced manumission, including immediate freedom, term slavery, and manumission upon the death of the master.

#10

By the time he died in 1836, Thompson had over forty slaves. He viewed himself as the benevolent caretaker, providing the future promise of liberty in return for loyalty and good behavior. He liberated his slaves after a term of servitude, guaranteeing that the benefits of their labor would accrue to his sons.

#11

The Thompsons had few slaves of their own, but they shared their enslaved labor with their neighbors. The Absaloms, on the other hand, had many slaves and hired out their excess labor to sustain their family.