Slave Plantations In Southern Maryland. The excavation is also helping the plantation's. Many of of the settlers were roman catholic.
Some people try to claim that the sotterley plantation is so beautiful and nice but it is the ugliest place in all of st mary's county. Mary’s counties, and two smaller estates on maryland’s eastern shore. Now, a s tara bahrampour reports for the washington post.
The fortunes amassed from the free toil of enslaved men, women, and children allowed maryland’s gentry to dominate colonial politics and propelled
The discovery is another piece in the saga of the early catholic plantations in maryland, their link to georgetown and the culminating sale by the jesuits of more than 200 enslaved people in 1838. The excavation is also helping the plantation's. The replica of a slave ship complete with middle passage history is. Today, rebuilt foundations of two slave quarters and interpretive signs detail the lives of the enslaved african americans and their free descendants who lived here from 1790 through 1940.