Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

William Watkins (b. circa 1803 - d. circa 1858)
MSA SC 5496-002535
Educator and Minister, Baltimore City, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses) [MSA C376-5]. William Watkins and Harriett Burgess, December 31, 1821.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for William Watkins, 1820, Baltimore City, Ward 11, Page 465, Line 7 [MSA SM61-63, SCM 2064].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for William Watkins, 1830, Baltimore City, Ward 11, Page 407, Line 13 [MSA SM61-83, SCM 66].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for William Watkins, 1840, Baltimore City, Ward 11, Page 209, 2nd line from bottom [MSA SM61-101, SCM 4715].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for William Watkins, 1850, Baltimore City, Ward 16, Page 248, Line 41 [MSA SM61-128, SCM 1490].

Newspapers and Journals -

"Essay on William Watkins," The Daniel Murray Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Bell, Howard H. "The American Moral Reform Society, 1836-1841." The Journal of Negro Education 27.1 (Winter 1958) 34-40.

Gardner, Bette. "Ante-bellum Black Education in Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 71.3 (1976) 360-366.

Gardner, Bettye J. “Opposition to Emigration, A Selected Letter of William Watkins (The Colored Baltimorean).” The Journal of Negro History 67.2 (Summer 1982) 155-158.

Jones, Carleton. "Grounds for Freedom." Baltimore Sun 29 September 1991: 19.

Martin, Elmer P. and Joanne M. Martin. "Daniel Coker, Community Leader." Baltimore Sun 19 February 1998: 19.

Phillips, Christopher. "The Dear Name of Home: Resistance to Colonization in Antebellum Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 91.2 (1996): 181-202.

Phillips, Glenn O. "Maryland and the Caribbean 1634 - 1984: Some Highlights." Maryland Historical Magazine 83.3 (1988) 199-214.

Books -

Berry, Faith. From Bondage to Liberation: Writings By and About Afro-Americans from 1700 to 1918. New York, NY: The Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc., 2006.

Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Brown, William Wells. "The Colored People of Canada." The Black Abolitionist Papers: The United States, 1847-1858. Ed. Peter C. Ripley. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 461-498.

Brown, W.R. Brown's General Toronto Directory, 1856. Toronto, Canada: MacLear & Co., 1856.

Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Caverhill, W.C.F. Caverhill's Toronto City Directory, for 1859-1860. Toronto, Canada: W.C.F. Caverhill, 1859.

Foster, Frances Smith. "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper." William L. Andrews, Francis Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris, eds. The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2001. 188-189.

Freedman, David. "African-American Schooling in the South Prior to 1861." The Journal of Negro History 84.1 (Winter 1999) 1-47.

Graham, Leroy. Baltimore: The Nineteenth Century Black Capital. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1982.

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, and Frances Smith Foster, ed. A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader. New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1990.

Logan, Shirley Wilson. We are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. and Kathryn Lofton, eds. Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Moss, Hilary J. Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Phillips, Christopher. Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Richardson, Elaine B. and Ronald L. Jackson, eds. African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.

Ripley, Peter C., ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers: The United States, 1847-1858. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Ripley, Peter C., ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers: Canada, 1830-1865, Vol. 2. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, 1872.

Thompson, William, and James L. Walker. The Baltimore Town and Fell’s Point Directory. Baltimore, MD: Pechin, 1796.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold. Letter to Henry Bibb and James Theodore Holly. The Black Abolitionist Papers: The United States, 1847-1858. Ed. Peter C. Ripley. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 224-228.

Watkins, William. "Address Delivered Before the Moral Reform Society, in Philadelphia, August 8, 1836." Early Negro Writing: 1760-1837. Ed. Dorothy Porter. Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1995. 155-166.

Weekley, Carolyn J., et al, ed. Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter. Williamsburg, VA: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, 1987.

Woodson, Carter G. Negro Makers of History. 3rd Ed. Washington D.C.: The Associated Publishers, Inc. 1928.

Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Internet Sources -

U.S. Census Record (MA) for William Watkins, Bristol, New Bedford, Ward 4, Page 199, Line 14. HeritageQuestOnline.com.


 
 

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