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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Phillips, Christopher William. 'Negroes and Other Slaves:' The African-American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1992.

Phillips, Christopher. "The Roots of Quasi-Freedom: Manumission and Term Slavery in Early National Baltimore." Southern Studies 4 (Spring 1993): 39-66.

Rosenberg, Louis S. The Low-Income Housing Effort in the City of Baltimore. Ph.D. diss., Brandeis University, 1976.

Schiller, Bradley R. The Economics of Poverty in Maryland. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973.

Sharrer, George Terry. Slaveholding in Maryland, 1695-1775. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1968.

Skotnes, Andor D. The Black Freedom Movement and the Workers' Movement in Baltimore, 1930-1939. Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1991.

Skotnes, A. "'Buy Where You Can Work:' Boycotting for Jobs in African-American Baltimore, 1933-1934." Journal of Social History 27 (Summer 1994): 735-61.

Slezak, Eva, comp. "Blacks Employed in Maritime Related Occupations: Wood's Baltimore City Directory, 1871." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 11 (Winter 1990): 169-85.

Smith, Peter C., and Karl B. Raitz. "Negro Hamlets and Agricultural Estates in Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass." Geographical Review 64 (1974): 217-234.

Sutherland, Hunter. "Slavery in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 35 (Winter 1988): 19-27.

Sweig, Donald M. "The Importation of African Slaves to the Potomac River, 1732- 1772." William and Mary Quarterly 42 (October 1985): 507-524.

Thomas, Bettye C. "A Nineteenth Century Black Operated Shipyard, 1866-1884: Reflections Upon Its Inception and Ownership." Journal of Negro History 59 (January 1974): 1-12.
Notes: The author examines the founding, organization and ownership of a black-owned and operated business of national prominence immediately following the Civil War. The Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry Dock Company, located Baltimore, was one of the best known of these companies. However, scholars have only noted th existence of this company, and, as of 1974, there were no scholarly studies of this company.

Towers, Frank. "Serena Johnson and Slave Domestic Servants in Antebellum Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 334-37.

Walsh, Lorena S. "Rural African Americans in the Constitutional Era in Maryland, 1776-1810." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 327-41.
Notes: The author examines the changing working conditions and differing experiences of slaves on six Maryland plantations during the Constitutional Era. Tasks varied by plantation, as did the family life of the enslaved population. The author uses correspondence and plantation records to attempt to reconstruct the daily lives of the enslaved on these plantations.

Wax, Darold D. "Black Immigrants: The Slave Trade in Colonial Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (March 1978): 30-45.

West, Herbert Lee, Jr. Urban Life and Spatial Distribution of Blacks in Baltimore, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1974.
Notes: 1940-70.

McGrain, John W. From Pig Iron to Cotton Duck: A History of Manuracturing Villages in Baltimore County, Vol. 1. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Public Library, 1985.
Notes: The ironworks, paper mills, and stockyards of Baltimore County, documented and illustrated by a man who has been called a "walking archive." An industrious and indefatigable researcher, and an estimable writer, McGrain, the Baltimore County historian, has made this territory his own.

McGrain, John. Gristmills of Baltimore County. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Public Library, 1980.
Notes: Illustrated.

Marzio, Peter. "Carpentry in the Southern Colonies during the Eighteenth Century with Emphasis on Maryland and Virginia." Winterthur Portfolio 7 (1972): 229-250.

Ware, Donna M. Green Glades & Sooty Gob Piles: The Maryland Coal Region's Industrial and Architectural Past. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1991.
Notes: Some 6,000 bridges, iron furnaces, log schoolhouses, company offices and stores, miner's houses, mill buildings, banks, churches, mansions, inns, resort cottages, and other structures associated with the extractive, manufacturing, and transportation industries of Garrett and western Allegany counties are surveyed and described here, with photographs, and contributions by Orlando Ridout, V, Geoffey B. Henry, and Mark R. Edwards. The largest project to date conducted by the Maryland Historical Trust is essential to an understanding of the unique remains of Maryland's historic resort area and coal and iron district.

Anderton, Esther. "Application for Distillers' Licenses 1798-1801." Anne Arundel Speaks 4 (September 1978): 4-5; (December 1978): 3-4.

Armstrong, Kimberly. "Vindex: A Maryland Ghost Town." Journal of the Alleghenies 31 (1995): 119-24.

Arnold, Joseph L. "The Neighborhood and City Hall: The Origins of Neighborhood Associations in Baltimore, 1880-1911." Journal of Urban History 6 (November 1979): 3-30.

Barnett, Todd H. "Tobacco, Planters, Tenants, and Slaves: A Portrait of Montgomery County in 1783." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 184-203.
Notes: Using the Maryland State Assessment of 1783, this study evaluates the condition of the Montgomery County community. Montgomery was the western most of Maryland's tobacco counties. This economy left Montgomery with exhausted farmland, as well as a poor, landless, and unstable population. Comparison is made with Frederick where the soil was essentially the same but had not been damaged by tobacco farming.

Bataller, Neal. "Ednor and Norwood-Quiet Reminders of the Past." Legacy 19 (Fall 1999): 1, 5.

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