The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Diggs, Louis S. Since the Beginning: African American Communities in Towson. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 2000.
Notes: East Towson, Sandy Bottom, Lutherville, Schwartz Avenue.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
"Early Ordinations of Black Preachers." Third Century Methodism 31 (February 1992): 2-3.
Fletcher, William Joseph. The Contribution of the Faculty of Saint Mary's Seminary to the Solution of Baltimore's San Domingan Negro Problems, 1793-1852. M.A. thesis, The Johns Hopkins University, 1951.
Categories: African American, Education, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Fowler, David Henry. Northern Attitudes toward Interracial Marriage; A Study of Legislation and Public Opinion in the Middle Atlantic States and the States of the Old Northwest. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1963.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Gerdes, M. Reginald. "To Educate and Evangelize: Black Catholic Schools of the Oblate Sisters of Providence (1828-1880)." U.S. Catholic Historian 7, nos. 2-3 (1988): 183-99.
Categories: African American, Education, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century
Gibson, Donald B. "Christianity and Individualism: (Re-) Creation and Reality in Frederick Douglass's Representation of Self." African American Review 26 (Winter 1992): 591-603.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Hall, Robert L. "Slave Resistance in Baltimore City and County, 1747-1790." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 305-18.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Henry, Thomas W. From Slavery to Salvation: The Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry of the A. M. E. Church. Edited with an introduction and a historical essay by Jean Libby. 1892; reprint, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Hurry, Robert J. "An Archeological and Historical Perspective on Benjamin Banneker." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 361-69.
Notes: The author provides a survey of the Banneker family farm in southwestern Baltimore County. While most scholarship has focused on Benjamin Banneker's career and achievements as a mathematician, surveyor and astronomer, since the 1970s, scholarship and public funding have helped to illuminate his life as a land-owning farmer. The Bannekers were one of the first African-American families to own land in the Piedmont region of Maryland; Benjamin's father, Robert purchased one hundred acres in 1737.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Kimmel, Ross M. "Free Blacks in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Spring 1976): 19-25.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Howard County, Montgomery County
Klein, Mary O. "'We Shall Be Accountable to God:' Some Inquiries into the Position of Blacks in Somerset Parish, Maryland, 1692-1865." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 399-406.
Notes: The author examines the conversion of free blacks and slaves in Somerset Parish. While a 1664 Maryland law stated that baptism had no effect on the status of a slave, the Anglican church worked towards conversion of the enslaved. However, Christian education and baptism varied depending on individual slaveowners. In some cases, the enslaved themselves refused to be baptized. Evidence of African religious practices remained alongside the practice of Christianity.
Categories: African American, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
McDonald, Leib. "The Christiana Riot." History Trails 31 (Winter 1996-Spring 1997): 9-11.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
McElvey, Kay Najiyyah. Early Black Dorchester, 1776-1870: A History of the Struggle of African-Americans in Dorchester County, Maryland, to be Free to Make Their Own Choices. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.
Notes: The author examines selected events relating to Dorchester County's black population between 1776 and 1870 and their struggle to make their own political, economic, religious, and educational choices. The author also focuses on the enslaved and free leaders who led the fight for self-determination. The author hopes that her text will be used in high school classrooms as a local history of black Dorchester County.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Milobsky, David. "Power from the Pulpit: Baltimore's African-American Clergy." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 274-89.
Categories: African American, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Murphy, Thomas Richard. 'Negroes of Ours:' Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838. Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1998.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Orser, W. Edward. "Neither Separate Nor Equal: Foreshadowing Brown in Baltimore County, 1935-1937." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Spring 1997): 4-35.
Categories: African American, Education, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Rogers, William Bruce. The Prophetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century America: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Ph.D. diss., Drew University, 1992.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Saraceni, Jessica E. "Secret Religion of Slaves." Archaeology 49 (November/December 1996): 21.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Tyson, John S. Life of Elisha Tyson, the Philanthropist, by a Citizen of Baltimore. Baltimore: published by the author, 1825.
Notes: Elisha Tyson was a Quaker abolitionist and philanthropist.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Van Deburg, William L. "Frederick Douglass: Maryland Slave to Religious Liberal." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Spring 1974): 27-43.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Van Deburg, William L. "The Tragedy of Frederick Douglass." Christianity Today 19 (January 31, 1975): 7-8.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Vaugh, Clarence. "Some Venerable Leaders." Harford Historical Bulletin 20 (Spring 1984): 18-23.
Notes: Biographical sketches of black leaders in Harford County history.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Harford County
Williams, Gladys. "The Beginnings of Union United Methodist Church from 1849-1860." Harford Historical Bulletin 15 (Winter 1983): 2-5.
Categories: African American, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Alexander, Robert L. "Wealth Well Bestowed in Worship: St. Paul's in Baltimore from Robert Cary Long to Richard Upjohn." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Summer 1991): 123-150.