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Publisher
University of Maryland College Park
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For this book, Dr. Phillips has indexed seventy-five years of handwritten records from Charles County, Maryland (1658-1733) for the first time. The records are nearly complete and most have never been transcribed; 872 'servants' without indentures were brought to this country, and 333 were owned by the judges on the very court that sentenced them to slavery. This book contains three indexes, with detailed abstracts, to servants with or without indentures...
Author
Series
Yale historical publications. Miscellany volume 123
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and historical documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward's book skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with...
11) Maryland slave narratives: a folk history of slavery in Maryland from interviews with former slaves
Publisher
Applewood Books
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"African Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland became a slave society in colonial days when tobacco ruled. Some enslaved people, like Anthony Johnson, earned their freedom and became successful farmers. After the Revolutionary War, others were freed by masters disturbed by the contradiction between liberty and slavery. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman ran from...
Author
Series
Columbia studies in the social sciences volume no. 222
Publisher
Octagon Books
Pub. Date
1971 [©1921]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
America plantation sites are reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the slaves that used to reside there in times of slavery. Mount Clare is one such site and Teresa Moyer examines the lives of its former slaves and the issues keeping these findings hidden. Raising questions about how race continues to affect the decisions made at historic sites, Moyer discovers that slaves at Mount Clare adopted the ceremonies of their owners while...
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