From Fields of Promise

Belonging neither to the South where its sympathies lay, nor to the North which held it captive, Maryland's Eastern Shore forges a new path through the havoc left by the Civil War.Mariah Wright, a Confederate widow, must find a way to keep her husband's farm from falling into poverty and ruin. Most of the former slaves have headed north to freedom, and there aren't enough hands to work the fields. Left with the care of her aging mother-in-law and young sister-in-law, Mariah strives to carry...