The Colonial History of Wye Plantation, the Lloyd Family, and their Slaves on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power

The history of the Lloyd family at Wye Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, from the 1650s to the early 1770s refines and complicates the dominant historical narrative of the rise of a native-born Protestant planter elite in colonial Chesapeake scholarship. First, the Lloyds were a wealthy and pol...

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Main Author: Speckart, Amy
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2011
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623580
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3371&context=etd