African-American Resources for Maryland

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Online resources about slavery in Maryland:

Contents 1 History and General Resources 2 Resources by Location 2.1 Allegany County 2.2 Anne Arundel County 2.3 Baltimore County 2.4 Calvert County 2.5 Carroll County 2.6 Cecil County 2.7 Charles County 2.8 Dorchester County 2.9 Frederick County 2.10 Harford County 2.11 Montgomery County (April - August 2023 focus) 2.12 Prince George's County 2.13 Queen Anne County 2.14 Talbot County (Sep - Dec 2023 Focus) 3 Slavery Resources

History and General Resources

• Abstracts of Maryland Wills
• Maryland Slave Owners and Superintendents, 1798, Vol. 1 Compiled by Bettie Stirling Carothers, 1510 Cranwell Road, Lutherville, Maryland 21093, 1974 (Google Books)
• History of Slavery in Maryland at Wikipedia.
• Maryland State Archives have Public Domain, fair use records of some slaves linked to their owners.
• A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland 2020 PDF at The Maryland State Archives
• Historic African-American Cemeteries of Maryland
• USBH Maryland Plantations
• Sources for Studying the Landscape of Slavery in Maryland
• A Study of The Rural African American Experience, 1865–1900, in the National Capital Area “They Have Erected a Neat Little Church" - Prepared under a cooperative agreement between The Organization of American Historians and The National Park Service, October 2021. National Park Service, Department of the Interior, October 2021. Wallace, Edith B.

Cemeteries

• Historic African American Cemeteries Maryland Commission on African American History & Culture Maryland Historical Trust

Resources by Location

Allegany County

Anne Arundel County

• Maryland - Anne Arundel County Manumissions

Baltimore County

Calvert County

Carroll County

Cecil County

Charles County

Dorchester County

• Maryland - Dorchester County Manumissions

Frederick County

• Compiled by the Commissioner of Slave Statistics in 1868 Former slave owners submitted lists of slaves they held as of 1864.

Harford County

• Harford County Manumission records

Montgomery County (April - August 2023 focus)

• See African-American Resources for Montgomery County, Maryland

Prince George's County

• List of Free Blacks in Prince Georges County 1790-1860
• Maryland - Prince George County Manumissions

Queen Anne County

• Maryland - Queen Anne County Manumissions

Talbot County (Sep - Dec 2023 Focus)

• African-American Resources for Talbot County, Maryland

Slavery Resources

• Abstracts of Maryland Wills
• Legacy of Slavery in Maryland Historic Maps and Maryland Slavery Research
• Maryland Slave Narratives
• Civil War Slave/Soldiers Listing, College of Southern Maryland
• MD State Archives also lists biographical information of slaves and owners.
• Maryland Slave Owners and Superintendents 1798, (Vol. 1)] at FamilySearch
• Legacy of Slavery in Maryland database
• The Enslaved Household of Tench Ringgold

Georgetown University Slavery Resources

• Life and Labor under Slavery: the Jesuit Plantation Project is the research attempting to trace the lives of approximately 300 men, women, and children owned by the Jesuit Order of Catholic priests to work five Maryland farms in support of the order and Georgetown University, who were sold to Louisiana plantation owners in 1838 to pay off the debts of the university's administration. See Rachel L. Swarns,
  • "272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown," New York Times, April 16, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/us/georgetown-university-search-for-slave-descendants.html. (A version of this article appears in print on April 17, 2016, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Georgetown Confronts Its Role in Nation’s Slave Trade.)
• List of slaves sold by Thomas Mulledy in 1838, The Georgetown Slavery Archive, "Sale of Maryland Jesuit slaves to Louisiana in 1838" collection; Jesuit Plantation Project, "Georgetown Slavery Archive, accessed March 15, 2019. This is a spreadsheet compiled from other records, citing "Adapted from the Jesuit Plantation Project, Georgetown University From "List of slaves on each estate to be sold" in Box 40, Folder 10, Maryland Province Archives"