again and again, to guide others to freedom. Enslaved from birth in 1820 in Maryland, Tubman fled North in 1849 to avoid being enslaved in the Deep South. She would make nearly 20 trips back South, guiding about 300 other freedom-seeking enslaved people to freedom. Tubman also made frequent...
Seeking a haven in the New World for persecuted Friends, Penn asked the King to grant him land in the territory between Lord Baltimore's province of Maryland and the Duke of York's province of New York. With the Duke's support, Penn's petition was granted. The King signed the Charter ...
“It is such a critical time for learning,” says Molly Mee, head of the Middle School Education Department at Towson University in Maryland who has written aboutthe various needsof middle school students. “What a student does in these three years can change so much in their future....
Maryland: Wickersham, St. Michaels Wickersham, characterized by distinctive Flemish Bond brickwork, is situated on Locust Street in the charming seaport town of St. Michaels.Inscribed bricksindicate that the home was built in 1750. Wickersham didn't always occupy its picturesque spot overlooking the ...
Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, Revised and Expanded Edition The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast as Observed Archaeologically ian w. brown There remains no more, except to speak of the Calumet. There is nothing more mysterious or more respected among them. Less honor is...