Maryland must take a meaningful step toward justice by creating a commission to study reparations, writes Del. Aletheia ...

The offices of Maryland’s attorney general and public defender teamed up to release their first report on the issue.

Forty years ago neither Maryland nor her sister State, Virginia, contained a man who desired the perpetuation of Slavery. Both States set to work in earnest to provide for the difficult and ...

The Hampton National Historic Site near Towson tells the history of slavery at a former plantation site in Baltimore County.

Maryland State Police is using it ... Lonnell Sligh: The blessing of me going to Kansas, I saw the other side of that slave industry that we called and we thought about for so many years.

the ship that had carried the slaves from Maryland to Louisiana in 1838. There, her mother recognized several people with her maiden name – and the name of her great-grandfather. As Maddox ...

Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she ...

who had forced Margaret Morgan and her children into slavery in Maryland. The U.S. Constitution clearly granted “to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ownership in ...

(AP Photo/Paul Sancya) EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Margaret Morgan, born into slavery in Maryland, had been living with her husband and their children in the free state of Pennsylvania for five years ...

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He spent his early years with his grandparents ...

who had forced Margaret Morgan and her children into slavery in Maryland. The U.S. Constitution clearly granted “to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ...