The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland

Parade to commemorate the franchisement of African Americans in America

The 15th Amendment

Staff

Chris Haley - Director - 410-260-6478
chrish@mdsa.net
Maya Davis - Research Archivist - 410-260-5477
mayad@mdsa.net
Rachel Frazier - Research Archivist - 410-260-5477
rachelf@mdsa.net
Kara Carter - Webmaster - 410-260-6424
karac@mdsa.net

Staff Phone List

Copy of 2011 Monthly Calendar - Portrait

Birthdays

A Celebration of Maryland’s Black Heritage -- Calendar
Outside Contacts

• Advisory Board
• Statewide Organization List
• Staff Outreach

Projects

• Beneath The Underground Railroad Homepage
• Target List for newspaper stripping March 2005
• UGRR Staff Tasks and Time Allotments
• UGRR Newspaper Abbreviation Key
• Racial Honesty Poll
• Slavery and Its Aftermath in Prince George's County, 1850-1880: The View from Mount Vernon 

• Legacy of Slavery Exhibits

• African American Resources
• Documents for the Classroom
• Legacy of Slavery Web Statistics
• The Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society Collection Overview

• 18th Century Runaway
• 1850 Population Transcription
• Afro American Grieving Material
• Anna Miles
• Anthony Johnson
• Charles Heise
• Dead Warrants
• Dead Warrants Statistics
• Charles Heise
• Galesville
• Glen Echo
• Henry Vinson Plummer
• Lynching
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Molly Berry Cabin
• Negro Mountain
• Original Slaves
• Potential Case Studies
• Racism
• Robert Smalls
• Sarah Lee
• Talburtt Family

• A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland
• A Short Guide to Understanding the Enslaved World of Maryland by Ira Berlin 
• African American Race Categories from Criminalizing a Race
• African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
• American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice
• American Legacy "Selling Poor Steven" 
• Apology for Slavery (Baltimore Sun) 
• "The Baltimore Association For The Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People"; Fuke, Richard Paul 
• "Beginning of a Major Life Series: SEGREGATION" September 3, 1956, vol. 41 (LIFE)" 
• "Black Community Development in Annapolis, Maryland, 1870-1885", Sallie M. Ives, pp. 129-149, Geographical Perspectives On Maryland's Past, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, Occasional Papers, Vol. 4, 1979. 
• Breaking the Silence (Baltimore Sun) 
• Casta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta) 
• Derailing the Mythology (The History Channel Magazine) 
• "Enslaved Masters: The Maryland Jesuits as Slaveholders", Rev. Rory T. Conley, Ph.D. 
• Excepts from "Bloody Dawn" 
• Every Picture Tells a Story: A Narrative Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Maryland Historical Magazine)
• Excerpts from "Resistance at Christiana"
• "If You Build It, They Will Learn" by Daniel De Simone (Library of Congress Magazine)
• Inflation(http://www.economic-data.com/inflation.htm) 
• "The KIDNAPPING CASE: Narrative of the Seizure and Recovery of Solomon Northrup", The New York Times 
• The Legendary Railroad 
• The Map of Africa before Colonization 
• Mapping A Paradox" by Kimberly R. Abe 
• Mount Berry Slave Cabin 
• "PaperTrail" by Nick Madigan (Baltimore Sun) 
• President James Monroe Letters regarding Great Britain's deportation of Slaves 
• Relatives of Frederick Douglass "A Family History (1733-1929)" 
• Shore starting to face up to past (Baltimore Sun) 
• Slavery and Freedom 
• Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution, Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman: "Introduction";
  "Black Society in the Chesapeake, 1776-1810" (pg49); and "Uprooted Peoples: Black Migrants in the Age of the American Revolution, 1790-1820" (pg143)
• Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century, "Two Marylands: 1850"; "Baltimore and the Problem of Slavery in Cities" (pg 40) ; "The Problem of Free Blacks in a Dual System" (pg63) , Fields, Babara
• "Slaves Without Masters" by Ira Berlin 
• "Soul by Soul" by Walter Johnson 
• Underground Railroad Activists in Washington D.C. 
• Underground Railroad in Montgomery County 
• White Lies: Human Property and Domestic Slavery aboard the Slave Ship Creole 

• Acts of the Assembly of Maryland Related to Runaways Final

• Cash For Blood

• "Joshua Johnson; Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter"

• Portraits in Black: Charles Alston's Drawings of African Americans

• Stanley Harrold, Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington DC, 1828-1865

• The Price of Freedom

• 18 Century Laws for Negroes and Slaves 
• African American History and Studies 
• American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, by Theodore Weld 
• Jacobsen Inventory Stack Boxes 
• Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage 
• Measuring Slavery in 2009 
• MHAA Instructional forms for Dorchester County Grant 
• The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin 
• The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland Homepage 

• DOE Grant Completion Chart 
• Underground Railroad Full Work Chart 

• Runaway Ads Imaging Instructions 2004 

Staff

• Kara Carter
• Ryan Cox
• Maya Davis
• John Gartrell
• Millington Lockwood

Interns 2011

• Christian Savage- U.S.C.T. Pension files
• Tanner Sparks- Confirming Identities: A Look at a USCT Veteran Through the Use of Pension Records
• Allison Seyler- Reconnecting with the Past

Interns 2007

• Laura Reading- Community Along the Potomac 

• Ryan Cox- Invisible Boundaries: A look at the Mason-Dixon Line through Articles found in the Baltimore County Advocate, 1850-1853 
• Genevieve Goerling- Running out of Time:An Analysis of the Ages of Fugitive Slaves in MD 1770-1865 
• Keith Swaney- A Nuisance to the Neighborhood”: Free Blacks of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1831-1858

• Laura Kopp- “Though We Are Not Slaves, We Are Not Free”: All-Female Black Households in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1860 
• Karen Palmer- Slavery and the Southern Belle: Women slaveholders in Antebellum Prince Georges County Maryland 1840-1861 
• Alexis Thompson- The Mulatto Slave and Fugitive in Maryland