The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Clayton, Ralph. Slavery, Slaveholding and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Contee, Clarence G. The American Negro as Portrayed by the Baltimore Sun: 1901-1904. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1953.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Cornelison, Alice. "History of Blacks in Howard County, Maryland." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 10 (Summer-Fall 1989): 117-19.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Howard County
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
Cornish, Sam. 1935: A Memoir. Boston: Ploughshares Books, 1990.
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
Farrar, Hayward. "The Baltimore Afro-American's Crusade Against Racism in Employment, 1892-1950." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1998): 6.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Farrar, Hayward. See What the Afro Says: The Baltimore Afro-American. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1983.
Federal Writers Project. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews With Former Slaves. 17 vols. St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1976.
Notes: Volume 15 includes Marylanders.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Fehrenbacker, Don E. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Notes: Most important case of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from Maryland.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
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
Fly, Everrett L., and La Barbara Wigfall Fly. Northeastern, Montgomery County Black Oral History Study. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Development, 1983.
Foner, Philip S. "Address of Frederick Douglass at the Inauguration of Douglass Institute, Baltimore, October 1, 1865." Journal of Negro History 54 (1969): 174-183.
Categories: African American, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
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
Goldstein, Leslie F. "Violence as an Instrument for Social Change: The Views of Frederick Douglass, 1819-1895." Journal of Negro History 41 (January 1976): 61-72.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Hajdusiewicz, Babs Bell. Mary Carter Smith: African-American Storyteller. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
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