This Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland provides a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of slavery in the state. built upon the most recent scholarship, this guide offers teachers and students a starting point with which to begin their own exploration of an institution that, in so many ways, has made their world.

Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952 tells the story of a struggle over what it meant to be a citizen of a democracy. For blacks, membership in a democracy meant full and equal participation in the life of the town. For most whites, it meant the full participation of only its white citizens, based on the presumption that their black neighbors were less than equal citizens and had to be kept down....