by Don Barker | Jun 10, 2022 | Black History, Black History & Culture, Black Schools, Historic Landscape
The Historic Landscape of Caroline County We identified historic black schools in the Choptank River Heritage area, primarily by georeferencing the 1875 Isler and 1897 Saulsbury maps of Caroline County. In the map shown on this page, use the toggle at the upper...
by Don Barker | Jun 1, 2021 | A.M.E. Church, Black History, Women
First Black Churches and Congregations in the Choptank River Heritage Area, re-discovered through the journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee. Jarena Lee (1783-1849) was the first female preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. She left her Philadelphia...
by Don Barker | Feb 21, 2021 | A.M.E. Church, Black History, Churches, Civil Rights & Racial Justice, Women
Meet Six Strong Black Women who were “First Ever” [ A Caroline Digital History Project collaboration with the Black Eastern Shore Project. Text, image, and sources from Black Women’s History on the Eastern Shore are republished here with...
by Don Barker | Feb 20, 2021 | Black History, Churches
“You know the feelings of the white people here in Delaware. Are you ready to die?” I said, None of these things move me. I never was so inspired to speak since the day I was born. And news went back to Caroline, that I was shot and killed. The Legacy of...
by Don Barker | Feb 14, 2021 | Black History, Religion
I walked 16 miles from Easton to my father’s. I knocked at the door and said, “Who lives here?” Father answered by saying, “Who is that?” I said, “Me.” Then mother said, “That’s Alexander”– showing a mother never forgets her child. Read Bishop Wayman’s story...
by Don Barker | Feb 10, 2020 | Black History, Schools
Through 90 years of racial segregation and funding disparity, black schools in Caroline County were sacred ground in the fight for literacy, democracy, and civil rights. Eight are still there. Stand in the Place. There were no public schools for enslaved or free...
by Don Barker | Dec 18, 2019 | Black History, Quakers
Daniel Hubbard, a free black, and his neighbor Arthur Leverton, a white Quaker, worked side by side to move freedom seekers through Caroline County to safety. [Jacob and Hannah Leverton House. Photo late 19th c.] [ A Caroline Digital History Project collaboration with...
by Don Barker | Feb 18, 2019 | Black History
In observance of Black History Month, we’re publishing Tuckahoe, a cycle of poems which beckon us to learn more about Frederick Douglass’s life and times – and to Stand in the Place. Robert Madison wrote: “By chance, in 1996 I moved to...
by Don Barker | Aug 10, 2018 | Black History, Cemeteries, Churches
Check out our new Story Map: click and goStand in the Place
by Don Barker | Mar 1, 2018 | Black History, Cemeteries, Churches
See the new St. Paul AME Story Map, Where the Dead Rise Up I was scanning aerial photography of Caroline County and saw this striking image in the landscape – above-ground crypts in a church graveyard: The 1897 map shows this was the site of St Paul African...
by Don Barker | Feb 28, 2018 | Black History
We updated our map app that shows clues in the Search for Frederick Douglass’s Birthplace. See the full-size app here.
by Don Barker | Feb 23, 2018 | Black History
An open letter to the Editor, Times-Record Mr. Polk, I would like to point out a couple of inaccurate ideas about Frederick Douglass’s birthplace which are presented in your article, Douglass Park opens on bicentennial, in...
