Capital   (Washington,   1982)  offers  a  detailed  account  of prominent black  Baltimoreans  and  their political  activities  before  and  after emancipation.     See  also  Ricard O.  Curry  (ed.),  Radicalism,  Racism3 and   Party   Realignment:   The   Border   States   During   Reconstruction (Baltimore,   1969).     William G.  Paul's,  and Joseph Garonzik's doctoral dissertations  "The Shadow of Equality: The Negro in Baltimore,   1864-1911,"   and  "Urbanization  and  the   Black  Population of Baltimore,   1850-1870  (University  of Wisconsin,   1972,   and  State University of New York at Stony Brook,  1974) contain much which is helpful, but like Fields, Paul deals with a broad sweep of time and devotes   relatively   little   attention   to   immediate   post-emancipation issues.    His study is also confined to the city of Baltimore.    Garonzik offers   a  detailed,   quantified  study  of urban  neighborhoods,  similarly confined  to   Baltimore,   which  supports   some  of the  demographic material found in this study.    Jean H. Baker's The Politics of Continuity:   Maryland   Political   Parties   from   1858   to   1870   (Baltimore, 1974),   provides   important   political   background   to   the   development of post-emancipation  race   relations,   but   touches   upon  the   latter themselves only briefly.    To find a study (other than that of Fields') which  confronts  directly  questions  relating  to  freed  slaves  and  their progress  one must return to Jeffrey R.  Brackett's  Progress  of the Colored  People  of Maryland  since  the  War  (Baltimore,   1890),  an