Food for Thought

[bob_summers]

(08-19-2019 01:43 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Thanks for the info. Can we assume that they also entered into sharecropping or tenant farming agreements with the free families? I know that's how my family managed two farms from the post-Civil War period until the death of tobacco farming in Maryland ca. 1960.

Laurie: Yes, I think we can assume they did. My mother told me there was a sharecropping family living in a small house on the farm when she grew up there - Richard and Laura Stewart. They called them Uncle Richard and Aunt Laura. My mother was born there on September 28, 1911, two months before Sara Mudd died there.