The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Silverman, Albert J. "The Chesapeake Blacks of Nova Scotia." Baltimore Sun Magazine, 22 September 1974, 30-31.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Smith, Helen Wampler. Montgomery Blair and the Negro. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1967.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Stansbury, Russell. "Biographical Sketch [of] Clayton Crewell Stansbury." Harford Historical Bulletin 15 (Winter 1983): 7-9.
Notes: Havre de Grace community leader, ca. 1920-1950.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Harford County
Thornton, Alvin. Like a Phoenix I'll Rise: An Illustrated History of African Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland, 1696-1996. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company, 1997.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
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