History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1695 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Edward Lloyd and Douglass
Captions available
The idea
Edward Lloyd the Fifth of Talbot County, Maryland, inherited holdings that peaked at forty-two thousand acres and a thousand enslaved people.
In practice
Frederick Douglass, enslaved on that plantation, describing its elaborate gardens and racehorses against an underfed and brutalised enslaved population.
Where people slip
Lloyd was Maryland's governor and later a senator, and defended slavery as America's economic foundation.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for History of the United States I