Archives of Maryland
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Alfred Homer (b. circa 1834 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-047808
Escaped from the Rockville District, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1856

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Detail of Rockville from Simon J. Martenet, Martenet and Bond's Map of Montgomery County, 1865, Library of Congress, MSA SC 1213-1-464.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SLAVE STATISTICS (Slave Statistics), [MSA CM750-1]. Mira Anderson, May 8, 1867. Page 12.

Letter from John H.B. Latrobe, Baltimore, to Dr. John Ridout, regarding "the cause of African Colonization." April 10, 1830. Ridout Papers, [MSA SC 910, Box 13, Folder 36].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, 1850, Montgomery County, Rockville District, Page 6, Line 32 [MSA SM61-142, M 1499-1].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, Slaves, 1850, Montgomery County, Rockville District, Page 2, Line 25 [MSA SM61-168, M 1505-5].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, 1860, Montgomery County, District 4, Page 7, Line 16 [MSA SM61-213, M 7223-1].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, Slaves, 1860, Montgomery County, District 4, Page 16, Line 30 [MSA SM61-239, M 7230-2].

Newspapers and Journals -

"$100 Reward!!" Montgomery County Sentinel 7 June 1856. MSA SC 2813, Reel M 475-01. Maryland State Archives.

"Country." Baltimore Sun 13 June 1856: 2. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Affairs in Montgomery County: Crops." Baltimore Sun 9 June 1856: 2. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"The Crops in Virginia." Baltimore Sun 3 June 1856: 4. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"The Great Falls of the Potomac Water Works." Baltimore Sun 21 September 1853: 4. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Harvest and Crops." Baltimore Sun 2 July 1856: 4. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Things of Montgomery County: Wheat and Guano." Baltimore Sun 17 March 1856: 1. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"The Planting Season." Baltimore Sun 9 April 1856: 1. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Anderson, George M., S. J. "Growing Sugar Cane in Montgomery County: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Experiment by James W. Anderson." Maryland Historical Magazine 79:2 (Summer 1984): 134-41. Available in the Maryland State Archives.

Anderson, George M., S. J. "The Civil War Courtship of Richard Mortimer Williams and Rose Anderson of Rockville." Maryland Historical Magazine 80:2 (Summer 1985) 119-138. Available in the Maryland State Archives.

Raschuart, Lisa. "Underground Railroad's Poignant Connections; D.C. Area Boasts Many Links to Freedom Route." Washington Times 3 August 2006.

Books -

Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1974.

Bowman, John D. Guide to Selections from the Montgomery County Sentinel, Maryland. January 1, 1856 - December 31, 1875. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2005.

Breward, Christopher. The Culture of Fashion: A New History of Fashionable Dress. New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 1995.

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Still, William. Journal C of Station No. 2, William Still, 1852-1857, Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004.

Internet Sources -

"Anderson House." Rockville, Montgomery County, M: 26-11-9. Maryland Historical Trust. http://www.mdihp.net

“Explore Rockville’s African American Heritage: A Walking Tour.” Rockville, Maryland - Official Web Site. http://www.rockvillemd.gov/historic/AAH_images/AAH_WalkingTour.pdf.

"Rockville Academy." The Historical Marker Database. http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=94.

"William Still." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. 17 vols. Biography Resource Center, Gale databases. http://infotrac.galegroup.com

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