by David Baker | Oct 6, 2026 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Events, FeaturedEvent
November 21, 2026 from 11 AM – 12 PM at the Central Branch of the Caroline County Library, Denton, Maryland Join Celeste-Marie Bernier to explore the remar ble life and legacy of Anna Murrt91 Douglass, a freedom-fighter, strategist, activist, and...
by David Baker | Aug 15, 2026 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Past Event
The Caroline County Public Library and the Caroline County Historical Society are honored to welcome speakers Nicole King (University of Oxford) and Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh) for a program that explores the remarkable lives of the Douglass...
by Don Barker | Feb 23, 2017 | Black History & Culture, dbarker, Women
Rosetta Douglass Sprague wrote in the memoir about her mother, Anna Murray Douglass, that young Frederick Bailey “gave his heart” to Anna Murray, and she “sympathized with him and she devoted all her energies to assist him” to escape slavery in...
by Don Barker | Oct 11, 2023 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, dbarker, Women
She was born free in Caroline County. He was born across the river in Talbot, enslaved. They followed separate paths to Baltimore. Anna met Frederick for the first time at the city wharves. He was 19, she was 24. Frederick was an enslaved shipbuilder. Anna had a...
by Kennedy Thomason | Jul 26, 2024 | A.M.E. Church, Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Civil Rights & Racial Justice, Kennedy Thomason Project, Quakers, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason, William Still, Women
Introduction The Choptank’s waters, once pathways for the arrival and auction of enslaved African people, later became lifelines guiding daring escapes to freedom. Throughout America’s earliest years, Caroline County and the Choptank River bore witness to...
by Don Barker | May 22, 2014 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Churches, dbarker
Who made you free, young Alexander? Your enslaved father? Your freed mother? How were you free, Alexander? Free to sit beside the Tuckahoe, read holy books and toss pebbles into the water, listen to Aunt Hester’s screams on the other side? Free to walk away from...
