Molly bannaky and timeline of events

Molly journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, where she worked as an indentured servant until she gained her freedom.!

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
ON A COLD, GRAY MORNING in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool, tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow.

When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing.
Molly was a 15th century English indentured servant, until she gained her freedom.
Because she could read, however, Molly escaped the typical punishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid was exiled from her country and sentenced to work as an indentured servant in an American colony.

Molly worked for a farmer in Maryland for seven long years. Then she was given an ox hitched to a cart, a plow, two hoes, a bag of tobacco seeds, a bag of seed corn, clothing, a gun--and her freedom.

That a lone woman should stake land was unheard of.

Purpose: In this lesson students will use the picture book Molly Bannaky by Alice.

Three hundred years ago, Molly Bannaky, a white woman living in Maryland, shocked many of her neighbors by marrying a black man.
Molly journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, where she worked as an indentured servant until she gained her freedom.
In , after working for seven years on a tobacco plantation in Maryland, Molly earned her freedom, and bought a acre farm ten miles from Baltimore.
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm.
That she should marry an African slave was even more so. Yet Molly prospered, together with Bannaky turning a one-room cabin in the wilderness into a thriving one-hundred-acre farm. And one day she had the pleasure of writing her new grandson's name in her cherished Bible: Benjamin Banneker.

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