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 Kennedy Thomason | Jun 26, 2024 | Agriculture, Colonial Era, Historic Landscape, Kennedy Thomason Project, Quakers, Religion, Revolutionary War, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason
The Choptank River, winding through the heart of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has long been a lifeline for the various communities situated along its banks. Among these communities is Caroline County, a small, agricultural region that would prove to be pivotal in...
by Don Barker | Oct 14, 2023 | Black History & Culture, dbarker, 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 | Jun 10, 2022 | Historic Landscape, Religion
The Historic Landscape of Caroline County We identified historically segregated white churches 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...
by Don Barker | Jun 30, 2021 | Cemeteries, Heritage Preservation, Quakers, Religion
Join us to preserve this sacred house of worship, built in 1802. Donate online to save the Meetinghouse. It takes just a minute. Donate Now [A collaboration with the Caroline County Historical Society and the Caroline Digital History Project.] Rare Interior...
by Don Barker | Jun 1, 2021 | A.M.E. Church, Black History & Culture, dbarker, 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 & 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 | 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 | Dec 18, 2019 | Black History & Culture, dbarker, 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...
