The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Cornelison, Alice, Silas E. Craft, Sr., and Lillie Price. History of Blacks in Howard County, Maryland: Oral History, Schooling and Contemporary Issues. Columbia, MD: Howard County, Maryland NAACP, 1986.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Davidson, Thomas E. "Free Blacks in Old Somerset County, 1745-1755." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 151-156.
Notes: County court records of Somerset County, Maryland during the eighteenth century are particularly complete, allowing for detailed studies of the county's population during that period. The author contributes to the scholarship which, up until 1985, focused primarily on the origins of black culture on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the seventeenth century. The author also adds to the growing scholarship on free blacks in this region, which tended to also focus on the seventeenth century. In addition to examining court records to determine the numbers of free Negroes and mulattoes, the author also attempts to determine how members of these populations obtained their free status, that is, through manumission or the as the result of being children of free mothers (free-born).
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Davis, A. Vernon. "The Local Scene." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (January 1990): 3-5.
Notes: Fort Frederick and the Williams Family.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Washington County
Demissie, E. "A History of Black Farm Operators in Maryland." Agriculture and Human Values 9 (Winter 1992): 22-30.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy
Diedrich, Maria. Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass. New York: Hill & Wang, 1999.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Women, Nineteenth Century
Diggs, Louis S. In Our Voices: A Folk History in Legacy. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 1998.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
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
Floyd, Bianca. Records and Recollections: Early Black History in Prince George's County. Bladensburg, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1989.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Haley, Alex. "In Search of 'The African.'" American History Illustrated 8 (1974): 21-32.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy
Harrold, Stanley. "Freeing the Weems Family: A New Look at the Underground Railroad." Civil War History 42 (December 1996): 289-306.
Notes: The author examines conventional and scholarly interpretations of underground railroad by looking at the escape of the Weems family from the Chesapeake region of Maryland. By using the Weems family as a case study, the author challenges thirty years' worth of scholarship on the underground railroad. By examining a family that escaped from a border state, the author is able to explore both black self-determination and white assistance found in the records of this family's escape. In addition, the author examines a bi-racial network of non-Garrisonian abolitionists who raised money to purchase the freedom of slaves, or if that was not possible, to channel the money raised into effecting an escape plan.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Harris, Richard E. "Blacks of Maryland's Caroline County Thrive Throughout the Slavery Period." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 8 (Winter 1987): 157-60.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Caroline County, Eastern Shore
Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware: From the Colonial Period to 1810. Baltimore: Clearfield, 2000.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
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
Ives, Sallie M. "The Formation of a Black Community in Annapolis, 1870-1885." Geographical Perspectives on Maryland's Past." Edited by Robert D. Mitchell and Edward K. Muller, 129-49. College Park, MD: University of Maryland Department of Geography, 1979.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Jacob, Grace Hill. The Negro in Baltimore, 1860-1900. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1945.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Jensen, Ann. "'Do You Know What I Have Been?:' A History of Blacks in Annapolis." Annapolitan 5 (April 1991): 36-42, 78, 92-94.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Anne Arundel County
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
Klingelhofer, Eric. "Aspects of Early African-American Material Culture: Artifacts from the Slave Quarters at Garrison Plantation, Maryland." Historical Archaeology 21 (1987): 112-19.
Notes: The author examines the objects excavated from the slave quarters at Garrison Plantation near Baltimore, Maryland. Various groups of objects represented early black material culture which reveal aspects of Africanisms. Archaeology is particularly useful for the study of Africanisms found in material culture as patterns of found objects may be compared chronologically and geographically.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Krech, Shepard, III. "Black Family Organization in the Nineteenth Century: An Ethnological Perspective." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 12 (Winter 1982): 429-452.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy
Kulikoff, Allan. "The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland." In Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Edited by Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, 171-96. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Morrow, Diane Batts. The Oblate Sisters of Providence: Issues of Black and Female Agency in their Antebellum Experience, 1828-1860. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1996.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century
Plummer, Nellie Arnold. Out of the Depths or the Triumph of the Cross. New York: G. K. Hall, 1997.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy
Rollo, Vera F. The Black Experience in Maryland. Lanham, MD: Maryland Historical Press, 1980.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Scalia, Rosalia. "Maryland's Freedom-Fighters: The Mitchell Family." Maryland 28 (February 1996): 34-36.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law
Shugg, Wallace. "The Great Escape of 'Tunnel Joe' Holmes." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 480-93.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy