by Don Barker | Feb 21, 2021 | A.M.E. Church, Black History & Culture, 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 & Culture, Churches, dbarker
“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 | Nov 24, 2020 | Cemeteries, Churches, Quakers
“It troubles me as it is so incorrect.” – Jo Ann Staples, Chairperson, Committee for the Preservation of the Tuckahoe Neck Quaker Meetinghouse Save the Meetinghouse [A collaboration with the Caroline County Historical Society and the Caroline...
by Don Barker | Nov 8, 2020 | Churches, Quakers, Religion
Donate to save the Tuckahoe Neck Quaker Meetinghouse. It takes just a minute. Donate Now [Text adapted from Jo Ann Staples, Committee for the Preservation of the Tuckahoe Neck Quaker Meetinghouse. Used with permission. In collaboration with the...
by Don Barker | Aug 10, 2018 | Black History & Culture, Cemeteries, Churches, dbarker
Check out our new Story Map: click and goStand in the Place
by Don Barker | Mar 1, 2018 | Black History & Culture, Cemeteries, Churches, dbarker
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 | May 22, 2014 | Black History & Culture, Churches, dbarker
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”–...
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...
by Don Barker | Apr 24, 2014 | Black History & Culture, Churches, dbarker
Reverend Jeremiah Miller was jailed in Easton. He prophecied the Lord would shake the town that day. After he was driven out, the church went down in that part of Maryland, until Bishop Wayman returned and set it right. The Legacy of A.M.E Bishop A.W. Wayman of...
by Don Barker | Apr 20, 2014 | Black History & Culture, Churches, dbarker
Near the place I was born,Tuckahoe,I dedicated Deep Branch Chapel.Then I hastened and got off. It’s 1874. Here. The Legacy of A.M.E Bishop A.W. Waymanof Tuckahoe Neck, Caroline County, Maryland Bishop Wayman recollects: When the [Missouri] Conference...
by Don Barker | Apr 18, 2014 | Black History & Culture, Churches, dbarker
Bishop Wayman, Do you come from Tuckahoe? Are you a son of Francis Wayman of Caroline County? I am. And now tell me, Did Charlie and Button pull your wagon all the way from Tuckahoe to Ohio? The Legacy of A.M.E Bishop A.W. Wayman of Tuckahoe Neck, Caroline...
by Don Barker | Apr 7, 2014 | Black History & Culture, Churches, dbarker
They wrote: His color was black. His features were strong. His voice was commanding, deep. His white friends in Denton always came out to hear him preach. So did Generals, Governors, and Presidents. Born on the Tuckahoe, 1821 (before Fred Bailey across the river...
