Black Baltimore, 1820-1870

The Effect of Immigration on the Negro in Baltimore 1850–1860 describes the effects of predominantly non-Black immigration into the city on the lives of the free and slave Blacks before the Civil WarSlaveholders of Baltimore, 1860 discusses the social history of the slaves, and provides a listing of all slaveholders enumerated in the 1860 Federal CensusSlaves by Name Notices of runaway slaves were routinely published in the newspapers and now provide an important resource for family historians This article provides an index to such notices in the Baltimore Sun for the years 1837–1864Baltimore Free Black Households with Slaves, 1820–1840 In a city like Baltimore not all slaves were required to live on the premises of their master, and they frequently appear in the households of other Blacks who often were friends or relations In addition, a surprising number of free Blacks were themselves slave holdersBlack Families of East Baltimore, 1870 This first census after Emancipation is the first to identify all Blacks by name, age, birthplace, etc and is of great value to family historians and sociologists This article provides a listing of every Black in Wards 1 to 6 of East BaltimoreLaurel Cemetery, 1852–1958 gives a brief history of the cemetery and a partial reconstruction of interments there

Ralph Clayton

(1987), 2011, 5½x8½, paper, index, 208 pp

ISBN: 9781556130809

101-C0080