The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Berlin, Ira, et al., eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series I, Volume II. The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Notes: Based upon the Freedman's Papers collection at the National Archives, this volume focuses on the genesis of free labor. Chapter 4, which presents an essay followed by original documents, is devoted to the Maryland experience. Although slavery and free labor co-existed throughout the 19th century, slavery had been concentrated in Southern Maryland and on the Eastern Shore, and it was here that the greatest tension existed during the Civil War era. Runaway slaves quickly appeared at unionist camps, such as Point Lookout, or escaped to the national capital, in search of freedom and employment. By 1864 several government farms were created along the Patuxent River from abandoned property which was home to over 600 former slaves. Former slaves discovered that emancipation did not mean freedom. The state legislature, still under the influence of former slave owners, passed restrictive laws circumscribing their freedom, including an apprenticeship law which allowed white landowners to forcefully "apprentice" black children. The Union commander, General Lew Wallace, attempted to counteract this program by issuing General Order 112, but the effort was not supported by the national government.
Categories: African American, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Berlin, Ira, et al., eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series II. The Black Military Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Notes: Based upon the Freedman's Papers collection at the National Archives, this volume focuses on the black military experience. Unlike most of the previous volumes, where there was an entire chapter devoted to Maryland, references to the state are scattered throughout the book. By the spring of 1865 some 179,000 black men enlisted in the Union army, of which 8,718 were from Maryland. These figures do not include service in the naval forces. Black enlistment helped to undermine slavery but it also contributed to a shortage of labor in rural areas. The families of enlistees were often ill-treated. Once in the Army, blacks were discouraged by unequal pay and by doing more manual labor than fighting. By the end of the war, however, black units fought with distinction. In Maryland, like other border states, black veterans were the objects of widespread terror as the former planter class attempted to reassert its hegemony.
Categories: African American, Military, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Berlin, Ira, et al., eds. Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Notes: Based upon the Freedman's Papers collection at the National Archives, this volume covers the comprehensive African American experience from slavery to freedom. Organized around primary documents, with short explanatory introductions, it explores various significant themes in this complex transformation. African Americans discovered that northerners, as well as former masters, were reluctant to recognize their equality and often imposed their views on such things as labor relations, the extent of personal freedom, and their proper role in the military. This book reveals that former slaves possessed a complex and sophisticated understanding of the meaning of freedom.
Categories: African American, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Billingsley, Andrew. "Family Reunion-The Legacy of Robert Smalls: Civil War Hero." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1993): 14-17.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Blackburn, George M., ed. "The Negro as Viewed by a Michigan Civil War Soldier: Letters of John C. Buchanan." Michigan History 47 (1963): 75-84.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Categories: African American, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Callum, Agnes Kane. 9th Regiment Colored Troops: Volunteers of Maryland, Civil War, 1863-1866. Baltimore: Mullac Publishers, 1999.
Categories: African American, Military, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Callum, Agnes K. Colored Volunteers of Maryland, Civil War, 7th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 1863-1866. Baltimore: Mullac Publishers, 1990.
Categories: African American, Military, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Clemens, Paul G.E. The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Eastern Shore, Eighteenth Century
Daniels, Christine Marie. Alternative Workers in a Slave Economy, Kent County, Maryland, 1675-1810. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1990.
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
Bourne, Michael. Historic Houses of Kent County. Chestertown, MD: Historical Society of Kent County, 1998.
Bourne, Michael. "Little Neck." Old Kent 11 (Spring 1994): 3.
Duvall, Elizabeth S. Three Centuries of American Life: The Hyson-Ringgold House of Chestertown. Chestertown, MD: The Author, 1988.
"Geddes-Piper House-How It Came To Be Ours And How We View It Now." Old Kent 16 (Summer 1999): 3.
Harris, Walter G. "The 1884 Kent County Jail." Old Kent 4 (March 1988): 1-2.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Nineteenth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Harris, Walter B., William D. Gould, Wilbur Ross Hubbard, and Norman Grieb. "Celebrating Our Fiftieth Anniversary: Acquiring and Restoring the Geddes-Piper House." Old Kent 3 (March 1987): I- 5.
"Historic Chester House." Isle of Kent (Summer 1993): 8.
Johnstone, Gene. "The Revitalization of Widehall." Old Kent 16 (Fall 1999): 1-2.
Johnstone, Eugene H. Historic Houses of Kent County: An Architectural History 1642-1860. Chestertown, MD: Historical Society of Kent County, 1998.
Neill, Robert, et. al. Chesterstown, Maryland, an Inventory of Historic Sites, etc. Chestertown, MD: Town of Chestertown, 1981.
"River House Designer Showcase." Old Kent 9 (Spring 1992): 1-3.
Worden, Amy. "Baltimore Civil War Depot to be Restored." Historic Preservation News 31 (April 1991): 17.
Gilmor, Harry. Four Years in the Saddle. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866.
Anderson, George M. "The Civil War Courtship of Richard Mortimer Williams and Rose Anderson of Rockville." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 119-138.
Notes: The story of the couple's courtship taken from Williams's writings. Insight is offered into life in Rockville, the county seat, during that period.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War