Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2018

The Maryland Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of poor negroes and others unlawfully held in bondage

›
Elias Ellicott, one son of Ellicott City founder Andrew Ellicott, was a founding member and on the 'acting committee' of the Maryla...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Tom Randall and the Howard House

›
Tom Randall was the son of Julia Bacon, a slave who was the cook at Howard House.  The Howard House hotel, built in 1850 contained a bar a...
2 comments:
Monday, February 12, 2018

The Ellicott City Colored School House and Beulah Buckner

›
Beulah (Meacham) Buckner (1930-2005) saw the dilapidated building while searching for tombstones and other records for slaves and free Af...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Jail and Courthouse Underground Railroad markers

›
The stone section under the porch roof was the original jail built in 1851 and is behind the courthouse built in 1843.  The National Park S...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Joe Nick - from slave to Civil War soldier

›
During the Civil War, Joe Nick drove a pair of horses with a covered wagon from his master Reuben Rogers' ("a lawyer and farme...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Rebecca Garrett 'freed', then retaken 20 years later

›
Rebecca Garrett's mother was freed by Sarah (Cord) Anderson in her 1805 will.  Later, Rebecca spent about 20 years living free in Balt...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Decatur Dorsey - slave to Medal of Honor recipient

›
Decatur Dorsey (1836-1891) was an enslaved African American in Howard County when he signed up in 1864. He would become a Sergeant in the ...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Benjamin Banneker's almanac and the Ellicotts

›
George Ellicott, his brother Elias Ellicott and their cousin Major Andrew Ellicott each helped to get Banneker's first almanac publish...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Oliver Cromwell Gilbert : a run-a-way slave's success story and 2 Walnut Groves

›
Oliver Cromwell Kelly was born in 1832 on "Walnut Grove" (owned by Gassaway Watkins), to Cynthia Snowden, the enslaved cook and ...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Margaret Jane Blake bought her freedom, her life in a book

›
"Margy" Blake (1811-1880) was the daughter of Charlotte and Perry Blake - he was a free African-American and a Marine during the...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Sarah Jane Dorsey freed in 1850, given land in 1869

›
Sarah Jane Powells (or Powell) Dorsey was born in Lisbon MD in 1828 (or 1832) and was freed in the 1850s by Thomas and Sarah Hood.  "...
1 comment:
Monday, July 4, 2016

Biography of Benjamin Banneker

›
The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science by Silvio A. Bedini, revised and expanded, 1999.  This is a fasc...