Summary of Kate Clifford Larson's Bound for the Promised Land

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#1 Tubman’s story begins with a complicated set of relationships, black and white, between several generations of families living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

#2 Tubman’s story begins with the history of some of the white families who claimed ownership of her and her family. The detailed records of the lives of the white families who enslaved Tubman and her friends demonstrate the contrast between the lives of whites and blacks.

#3 Several documents did survive the fire, including the records of the Orphans Court from 1847 to 1852, which were saved because the clerk of the court brought the logbook home to work on it over the weekend.

#4 In 1797, Atthow Pattison, the patriarch of a long-established Eastern Shore family, died. He left his remaining slaves and livestock to his surviving daughter, Elizabeth, and her children. Rit’s and her children’s terms of service were limited to 45 years, in order for them to be eventually freed from slavery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822509498

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#1

Tubman’s story begins with a complicated set of relationships, black and white, between several generations of families living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

#2

Tubman’s story begins with the history of some of the white families who claimed ownership of her and her family. The detailed records of the lives of the white families who enslaved Tubman and her friends demonstrate the contrast between the lives of whites and blacks.

#3

Several documents did survive the fire, including the records of the Orphans Court from 1847 to 1852, which were saved because the clerk of the court brought the logbook home to work on it over the weekend.

#4

In 1797, Atthow Pattison, the patriarch of a long-established Eastern Shore family, died. He left his remaining slaves and livestock to his surviving daughter, Elizabeth, and her children. Rit’s and her children’s terms of service were limited to 45 years, in order for them to be eventually freed from slavery.

#5

The Eastern Shore was a hotbed of manumission activity during the 1790s. While elite families still had control over the process, wealth could be achieved readily with the expanding production of wheat and other grains for export markets.

#6

The American Revolution and an increasing religious awakening sparked intense debate about the moral, political, and economic validity of slavery. While some slaveholders immediately freed their slaves, others sold their slaves for a limited term of years, putting cash in their pockets while assuaging their consciences by providing for eventual manumission.

#7

The Abolition Society argued that restrictions on the ability of a slaveholder to manumit his slaves was in direct conflict with the rights of free individuals to control their property. The law was changed in 1796 to allow manumissions for those slaves under forty-five, which was still a relatively advanced age.

#8

Mary Pattison Brodess, a granddaughter of Thomas Pattison, married Joseph Brodess, a local farmer, in 1800. They had a son, Edward, in 1801. Mary married Anthony Thompson, a moderately successful landowner, in 1803.

#9

The slave trade patterns in the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century offer some clues to Tubman’s African heritage. Modesty, or any one of Tubman’s other black grandparents, may have been taken as a child sometime during the mid-1700s while living on West Africa’s Gold Coast.

#10

The Asante were a West African people who were skilled at clearing land for small farms, and they