Elizabeth's Field - Softcover

Lockhart, Ms Barbara M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480219509 ISBN 13: 9781480219502

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1480219509
• ISBN 13: 9781480219502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246