The Hampton National Historic Site near Towson tells the history of slavery at a former plantation site in Baltimore County.

The effort represents a unique partnership led by the Jesuits and a group of descendants linked to the order’s 1838 sale of 272 men, women and children from its five Maryland plantations to ...

It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass, born on a Maryland plantation 200 years ago this month, never knew on what February day because history-deprivation was ...

OLNEY, Md. (7News) — Nestled in the heart of Montgomery ... homes that housed enslaved Africans in the 1800s on the Oakley Plantation established by a Quaker in 1764. After Emancipation in ...

Following the termination of the international slave trade in 1808, an extensive domestic trade opened between the older slave states such as Virginia and Maryland, and the new territories ...