Mapping a Paradox: The African-American Cultural Landscape in Antebellum Baltimore County, Maryland

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorAbe, Kimberly Ruth
dc.contributor.programMA in Historic Preservationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-08T16:24:55Z
dc.date.available2016-04-08T16:24:55Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractSlavery sites and other cultural resources associated with antebellum AfricanĀ­ American life in Baltimore County, Maryland, and nationally, have historically been under-researched. Thus, many of these buildings and sites are unrecognized as historically significant and are needlessly demolished or neglected. The losses are particularly tragic because these resources are some of the only remaining records of lives that were largely undocumented in writing. Consequently, the failure to document America's slavery sites is indirectly resulting in the destruction of history itself. This thesis presents historical geography as an innovative research approach for identifying and protecting Baltimore County's slave past through the partial construction of an atlas to portray the county's antebellum African-American experience. This research approach extends recognition of resources beyond the slave cabin to the larger cultural landscape that included the farmstead, towns, and other types of physical environments. This Baltimore County cultural landscape is one of the country's most complex and intriguing. By 1860 this county had the largest free black population in the country living within in a slave society, and bordering on the free state of Pennsylvania. An antebellum African-American atlas illustrating the paradoxical nature of slavery in Baltimore County provides a comprehensive geographic perspective for efficient study and presentation of the locations of, and relationships between, sites of slavery, runaway slaves' sites of origin, free black communities, and other resources. Foremost, this prototype map strengthens the case for protection of these sites as both records and as monuments to convey the country's largely untold story of slavery.en_US
dc.format.extent176 p.en_US
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2Q442
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/2740
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsTo view a complete copy of this thesis please contact Goucher College Special Collections & Archives at archives@goucher.edu or (410) 337-6075.
dc.subjectSlavery -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- History -- To 1863en_US
dc.subjectSlaves -- Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration -- Maryland -- Baltimore Countyen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- History -- To 1863en_US
dc.subject.lcshHistoric preservation -- Theses
dc.titleMapping a Paradox: The African-American Cultural Landscape in Antebellum Baltimore County, Marylanden_US
dc.typeTexten_US

Files

License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.6 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Goucher College MA in Historic Preservation