The history of African Americans in Maryland is long and complex. Southern Maryland is the home of the first person of African descent to be elected to and serve in a legislature in America. His name
Runaway slave reward in Maryland
Maryland's slave population by at the time of the Civil War
African American Schoolhouse Museum in Maryland
Slaveship diagram
Slavery in Maryland lasted over 200 years, from its beginnings in 1642 when the first Africans were brought as slaves to St. Mary's City, to its end after the Civil War. While Maryland developed simil
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Slave traders Bernard M. Campbell, Joseph S. Donovan, and Hope H. Slatter advertise their jails in The Baltimore Sun, January 19, 1844
Slaves processing tobacco in 17th-century Virginia
A contract of Indenture signed by Henry Meyer in 1738. In early Maryland, indentured servants outnumbered slaves.
Charles Calvert, eldest son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, painted by John Hesselius in 1761, accompanied by an enslaved boy