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BLACK WATER NWR FIELD TRIP
BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND: HARRIET TUBMAN, PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN HERO
Damon chandler
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