The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
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
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
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
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
Moulton, Paul C. "African-American Inclusion in the Fifth Naval District, 1942-44." Southern Historian 18 (1997): 29-44.
Categories: African American, Military, 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
Newton, Adolph W. Better Than Good: A Black Sailor's War, 1943-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
Categories: African American, Military, Twentieth Century
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
Sheads, Scott S. "A Black Soldier Defends Ft. McHenry, 1814." Military Collector and Historian 41 (Spring 1989): 20-21.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Thomas, Gail M. "The Black Soldier in the Military." Passport to the Past 4 (April/May/June 1993): 7-9.
Categories: African American, Military
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
Zubritsky, John. Fighting Men: A Chronicle of Three Black Civil War Soldiers. Upland, PA: Diane Publishing Company, 1997.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
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.
Davis, Vernon Perdue, and James Scott Rawlings. The Colonial Churches of Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina; Their Interiors and Worship. Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1985.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Religion, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Tabak, Israel. "The Lloyd Street Synagogue of Baltimore: A National Shrine." American Jewish Historical Quarterly 61 (1972): 342-352.
Gilmor, Harry. Four Years in the Saddle. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866.
Beitzell, Edwin W. St. Mary's County, Maryland in the American Revolution: Calendar of Events. Leonardtown, MD: St. Mary's County Bicentennial Commission, 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, St. Mary's County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (July 1992): 5-6.