African Americans--Maryland--Kent County--History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
African American Heritage and Culture Council of Kent County records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0204
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains administrative records, materials related to the “And They Sang” project, the African American Schoolhouse, and Sumner Hall and African American Civil War veterans. Ruth Shoge, a member, primarily collected materials.
Dates:
1997-2010
The Commodore Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0102
Scope and Contents Note
The Commodore Collection contains papers related to the lives of African Americans in Kent and Queen Anne’s County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The materials relate to both free and enslaved African Americans through estate documents, hire agreements, financial documents, legal documents, and runaway slave broadsides. The collection has been organized by genre and then chronologically.
Dates:
1754-1870