SELECTED RESEARCH TOPICS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
John Brown and the Gilaedites
The Christiana, Pennsylvania Shoot Out, Sept 11, 1851
The Black Exclusion Laws of Maryland
First Petition to Congress for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Philadelphia, 1794
Maryland in Liberia: Dissension in the American Colonization Society
The Settlement of Recaptured Slaves, Act of Congress, 1819
The Legalization of Slavery in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Initial research on the Maryland law by Samuel McKean, Montgomery College
State appropriations for the American Colonization Society, Pennsylvania and Maryland
Native American Enslavement in Pennsylvania and Maryland
The First Fugitive Slave Act, Virginia, 1642
Debate on the desirability of Christianizing slaves
Maryland statute of 1681 legalizing the offspring of mixed Slave/Free marriages.
Maryland constitutionalization of slavery, 1715
Reactions to slave rebellion and rumors of slave rebellion in colonial Pennsylvania and Maryland
The impact of the Transportation Act of 1715 (Britain) on Maryland and Pennsylvania
The Gradual Emancipation Act of Pennsylvania, 1780
The impact of Somerset v Stewart (Britain, 1772) in Maryland and Pennsylvania
Recruitment of Slaves in Maryland and Pennsylvania during the American War of Independence
Thomas Jefferson as Governor of Maryland, 1777-1779
Maryland statute of 1783 abolishing the importation of slaves
Richard Allen and the establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, 1787
Maryland's reception of Benjamin Lundy's "Genius of Universal Emancipation," 1829
Reactions to the Nat Turner Rebellion in Pennsylvania and Maryland
The influence of Thomas R. Drew in the Maryland debate on abolitionism and colonization.
Reactions to the British Emancipation of Slaves Act, 1834
J. Q. Adams as legislator for Maryland: The Gag Rule Issue
The Maryland Constitution of 1864 and emancipation
40 Acres and a Mule: The Quest for Reparations
The 1860 Census: Runaway Slaves in Maryland
Religious Foundations of Anti-Slavery Sentiment: A Social Evil or a Personal Sin?
A Jesuit Perspective on Slavery: Br. Joseph Mobberly, SJ Documents cache
Sold Down the River, 1838 Documents cache
Catholics & Slavery in the Antebellum South Documents cache
Lincoln's First Plans for Emancipation Documents cache See also document below.
Responses toUncle Tom's Cabin Document cache

COMPLETED TOPICS

*Samuel Green and the price of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Maryland, 1858. Researched by Brian Beaubien, Montgomery College. Fall, 1999 Click Here for Essay

*Maryland Act of 1681 Regarding Mixed Marriages. Researced by Samuel McKean, Montgomery College, Fall, 1999 Click Here for Essay


*Maryland Reaction to the Nat Turner Rebellion," Researched by Laura Torbet & Laura Bernstein, Montgomery College, Fall, 1999 Click Here for Essay

Select Documents

Lincoln's Proclamation of May 19, 1862 overturning General Hunter's emancipation of slavesClick here for Document

Up From Slavery - to Peonage Click here for Document

House of Representatives Resolution 29, 1867 Click here for Document

Abraham Lincoln on The Repatriation of African Americans. Click Here for Document