BLACK WATER NWR FIELD TRIP

BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND: HARRIET TUBMAN, PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN HERO

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WHITE ENTREPRENUERS, BLACK GOLD, AND COLD CASH

• Talbot county dominated the shipbuilding industry on the eastern shore.

• Demand dropped after the War of 1812

• New economic opportunities

• Free blacks and slave’s tremendous amounts of labor helped pave the land we live on today.

• Transformation of cash crop agriculture dramatically affected the nature of slavery by the beginning of the 19th century.

• Many slaveholders were reluctant even at the face of greater economic gain, to sell beyond the county limits.

THE TRIP