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Elizabeth's Field is the story of the free black population living on Maryland's Eastern Shore in a county known for the birthplace of Harriet Tubman. Elizabeth, a free woman of Indian and African-American descent, owns land in 1852 and loses it in 1857. Her struggle to hold onto the land and her connection with Sam Green, the local minister who is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for owning a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, attest to the turmoil existing within Maryland's borders.Mattie, the present day farm worker on whose oral history the novel is based, searches for answers to her genealogical history. As she tells the story of her life, she reveals the societal and agricultural changes that occurred on the same land that was Elizabeth's field one hundred and fifty years before.Elizabeth's Field won a silver medal in the Indie Publishers Book Award for regional fiction in 2014.
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Barbara Lockhart is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Vermont College and the recipient of two Individual Artist Awards in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council for excerpts from her first novel, "Requiem for a Summer Cottage," and her short stories. She has also authored and co-authored children's books as well as a nationwide program for the teaching of children's literature, "Read to me, Talk with me." A native of New York City, Lockhart lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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Elizabeth's Field
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
ISBN 10 : 1480219509
ISBN 13 : 9781480219502
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Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
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Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. N° de réf. du vendeur 12935856-6
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Elizabeth's Field
Edité par
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
ISBN 10 : 1480219509
ISBN 13 : 9781480219502
Ancien ou d'occasion
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Vendeur : Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, Etats-Unis
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paperback. Etat : VERY GOOD. Clean, unmarked interior text, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Softcover book is clean and bright, shows light edge, corner, shelf wear. No rips, chips, stains or tears. Photos are of the actual item you will receive. Binding is solid, square. 2012. CreateSpace. Independent Publisher's Book Awards. Ships quickly and with care. __________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Elizabeth's Field by Barbara M. Lockhart Originally published in 2013, this work of historical fiction consists of approximately 250 pages. Set on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Dorchester County the birthplace of Harriet Tubman the novel is a meticulously researched study of the free Black and Native American populations in the decade preceding the American Civil War. The book was awarded a Silver Medal in the Independent Book Publisher Awards for Regional Fiction. The plot, based on actual 19th-century county land records and local oral histories, follows Elizabeth Burton, a free woman of mixed Black and Native American ancestry who owned a farm from 1852 to 1857 before losing it to a white neighbor. The narrative weaves her struggle to maintain her land alongside the historical trial of local minister Sam Green, who was sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing a copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Structurally, the novel utilizes a contemporary frame narrative featuring a modern farm worker, Mattie, who investigates her genealogical history on the same land. N° de réf. du vendeur 50VG091724H1
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