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Abolitionists, Free Blacks, and Runaway Slaves: Surviving Slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

By Clara Small, Salisbury State University.

African American Heritage

In Worcester County, Maryland.

African Americans: Bibliography of Articles found in Maryland Historical Magazine

African-American Sailors Served in Our Nation's "Private Navy"

Overview of the contributions of African-American sailors aboard U.S. Navy and privateers sailing out of Baltimore during the War of 1812.

Black Men, Blue Waters: African Americans on the Chesapeake

The stories of three African American watermen whose life stories span much of the century.

Diamonds of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore: Seven Black Men of Distinction

By James Newton, University of Delaware and Harmon Carey, Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware. Profiles 7 Black Men of Distinction from the early 19th century to modern times.

Discovering the Past/Considering the Future: Lessons from the Eastern Shore

By Margaret Andersen, University of Delaware. Looks to the racial history of the Eastern Shore's past in order to understand the contemporary patterns of race relations in the area.

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist, reformer, author and orator. Born 1818 ? In Talbot County, Maryland.

Harriet Ross Tubman

Abolitionist. Born on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Secretary of State, 1791

Maryland State Archives Descriptions of African American Records

Covers Manumissions; Indentures; Distribution of Slaves; Chattel Records; Bounty papers, and more.

Reginal H. Lewis Museum

Museum of African American culture located in Baltimore.

Slavery in the United States:

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave under various Masters...

The Cambridge Convergence: How a Night in Maryland 30 Years Ago Changed the Nation's Course of Racial Politics

H. Rap Brown crossed rhetorical swords with Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew.

The Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Inc.

America's First Black History Wax Museum. Hours, exhibits, information on this Baltimore landmark.

Thurgood Marshall

First U.S. black Supreme Court justice. Born 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Underground Railroad guide

The State Library Resource Center has created a web guide on the Underground Railroad.

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