Elizabeth's Field: Of Freedom and Bondage on Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore

Elizabeth's Field is the story of the free black population living on Maryland's Eastern Shore prior to the Civil War, in a county known for being the birthplace of Harriet Tubman.

Elizabeth, a free woman of American Indian and African-American descent, owns land in 1852 but 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 having 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 have occurred on the same land that was Elizabeth's field, one hundred and fifty years before.

Author: Barbara Lockhart
Publisher: Secant Publishing LLC
Published: 08/01/2020
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781944962753

About the Author
Lockhart, Barbara: - A native of New York City, Barbara Lockhart lives on a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She is the recipient of two Individual Artist Awards in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council for her short stories and her first novel, Requiem for a Summer Cottage as well as a silver medal from the Independent Book Publishers Awards for her historical novel, Elizabeth's Field. She has authored and co-authored four children's books and a nationwide program for the teaching of children's literature, Read to me, Talk with me. Her short stories have appeared in such venues as Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review and Pleiades.