The American Revolution is seen as a formative event, but it was also a shattering one to those who experienced it. Charles County, situated on the Potomac near Chesapeake Bay, long enjoyed the prosperity of a rich soil and thriving overseas trade. Its social order - white planters at the top, enslaved blacks at the bottom - was stable and its politics were local. This world was swept away by Independence and the war with Britain. Led by its accustomed elite, the county was drawn into the Revolution, fought battles local ...
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The American Revolution is seen as a formative event, but it was also a shattering one to those who experienced it. Charles County, situated on the Potomac near Chesapeake Bay, long enjoyed the prosperity of a rich soil and thriving overseas trade. Its social order - white planters at the top, enslaved blacks at the bottom - was stable and its politics were local. This world was swept away by Independence and the war with Britain. Led by its accustomed elite, the county was drawn into the Revolution, fought battles local and distant, and emerged part of a nation, its society admitting greater degrees of freedom and yet impoverished and depleted. This text brings 18th-century seaboard Maryland to life in this in-depth study of the social and political history of an area greatly affected by the Revolution.
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Good. First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Very Good dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Shelf worn. Bumped on cover edges. Red smudge on page edges. Shelf cocked. (maryland, history, revolutionary war, charles county)
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First edition. 8vo. xv, (2), 388 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, maps. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper to fellow historian Merrill Peterson. Fine. Two-tone cloth, decorated dust jacket. (9276).
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