"All of Us Would Walk Together"
From Slavery to Freedom at St. Mary's Manor
[one_third]The enlistment card of Aelxander Gough (courtesy of ancestry.com)[/one_third][two_third_last]On October 19th, 1863, Lieutenant Eben White of the Union Army headed to St. Mary’s County to recruit African American slaves to …
[one_half]A newspaper article from the St. Mary’s Beacon describing the celebrations near Leanordtown in 1870. [/one_half][one_half_last]On May 19th, 1870, a group of African Americans got together in Leanordtown in St. Mary’s …
One of the difficulties in working with archaeological material is that our data set is inherently incomplete. While looking at what people from the past have left behind does give …
One of the central documents that has been used to learn about the enslaved African Americans who lived at St. Mary’s Manor was a list compiled by Dr. Brome in …
Tomorrow, October 18th, Historic St. Mary’s City will be host to the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, who will be holding one of their public meetings. The …
In 2008, still in the early stages of researching the history of African Americans who had lived at St. Mary’s City during the 19th century, I was alerted by my …
Old newspapers are one of the most useful pieces of historical information for both historians and archaeologists. For historians, they can reveal not only a chronological account of what happened …
