Research Guides: Slavery & Freedom in Maryland: Books by Topic

Books by Topic

There are a wide range of subjects and historical figures associated with the history of slavery in Maryland and throughout the United States. Consult the Searching the Catalog page of this guide for tips on locating general resources on the slavery using the UMD online catalog.

You may also browse this page for a selection of books, available in the Maryland Room, on the following topics:

Anti-Slavery Movements

"Got my mind set on freedom": Maryland’s Story of Black & White Activism, 1663-2000 by Barbara Mills
Call Number: Maryland E185.93.M2 M55 2002
Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 2002.
Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865 by T. Stephen Whitman
Call Number: Maryland F187.C5 W455 2007
ISBN: 0938420968
Baltimore, Md.: Maryland Historical Society, 2007.
Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad by Mary Kay Ricks
Call Number: Maryland E445.D6 R53 2007
ISBN: 0060786590
New York: William Morrow, c2007.
Seeking Freedom: A History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County, Maryland by Paulina C. Moss and Levirn Hill
Call Number: Maryland Stacks F187.H8 S44 2002
Columbia, Md. : Howard County Center of African American Culture, c2002.
Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia by William J. Switala
Call Number: Maryland E450 .S98 2004
ISBN: 081173143X
Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c2004.

Books from UM Faculty

A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland by Ira Berlin
Call Number: Maryland FOLIO E445.M3 G85 2008
Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives; [College Park,] MD: University of Maryland College Park, 2008.
Knowing our History: African American Slavery & the University of Maryland by Students of History 429 ... [et al.]
Call Number: Maryland E185.93.M2 K56 2009
College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, [2009]
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
Call Number: Maryland E446 .B49 1998
ISBN: 0674810929
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays by Edited by Eric J. Sundquist
Call Number: MD E449.D75 F74 1990
Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings by Edited by Philip S. Foner
Call Number: MD E449 .D7345 1999
ISBN: 1556523491
Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, c1999.
Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee by David W. Blight
Call Number: Maryland Stacks E449.D75 B55 1989
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1989.
Majestic in his Wrath: A Pictorial Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick S. Voss
Call Number: MD FOLIO E449.D75 V67 1995
ISBN: 1560985224
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery and the National Park Service, 1995.
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass by Philip S. Foner
Call Number: Maryland E449 .D736
New York: International Publishers. 5 Volumes.
The Mind of Frederick Douglass by Waldo E. Martin, Jr
Call Number: Maryland Stacks E449.D75 M37 1984
ISBN: 9780807841488
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1984.
Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years by Dickson J. Preston
Call Number: Maryland E449.D75 P74
ISBN: 0801827396
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980.

Harriet Tubman

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
Call Number: Maryland E444.T82 L37 2004
ISBN: 0345456270
New York: Ballantine, c2004.
Harriet Tubman: Imagining a life by Beverly Lowry
Call Number: Maryland E444.T82 L68 2007
ISBN: 0385502915
New York: Doubleday, c2007.
Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez
Call Number: Maryland E444.T82 H86 2003
ISBN: 0299191249
Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.
Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History by Milton C. Sernett
Call Number: Maryland E444.T82 S45 2007
ISBN: 0822340739
Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
Call Number: Maryland Stacks E444.T82 C57 2004
ISBN: 0316144924
New York: Little, Brown, c2004.

Slavery and the Economy

Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865 by Ronald L. Lewis
Call Number: Maryland E445.M3 L48
ISBN: 0313205221
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom by Jack L. Schermerhorn; Calvin Schermerhorn
Call Number: Maryland Stacks E445.M3 S45 2011
ISBN: 9781421400358
Publication Date: 2011-05-06
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 by Lorena S. Walsh
Call Number: Maryland Stacks HD1471.U52 C488 2010
ISBN: 9780807832349
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Planting an Empire by Jean B. Russo; J. Elliott Russo
ISBN: 9781421405551
Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland by Lois Green Carr
Call Number: Maryland Stacks HN79.M32 C37 1991
ISBN: 0807819859
Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1991.
Scraping by: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore by Seth Rockman
Call Number: Maryland HD8085.B33 R63 2009
ISBN: 0801890063
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 by Allan Kulikoff
Call Number: Maryland Stacks HC107.A12 K85 1986
ISBN: 080781671X
Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, c1986.