CENTREVILLE, Md. -- For four centuries, they were the ultimate pack rats. Now a Maryland family's massive collection of letters, maps and printed bills has surfaced in the attic of a former plantation ...
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GWENDOLYN BANKINS: IF IT WASN’T FOR THE FACT THAT I WAS A CHILD AND MY MOTHER MADE ME GO, I WAS NOT GOING TO A PLANTATION. THEO: FOR GWENDOLYN BANKINS, SOTTERLEY HOUSE WAS A PAINFUL REMINDER OF THE ...
The midday chimes of St. Francis Xavier Church ring out over the old Jesuit plantation — across the fields of stubble and down toward the Potomac River and Breton Bay. Crows call in a distant tree ...
Archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration have discovered a 300-year-old slave quarters on a Jesuit plantation in St. Mary’s County. The remains, which ...
LEONARDTOWN, Md. (WJZ) --After being buried for 300 years, slave quarters at a historic plantation in southern Maryland have been unearthed. Archaeologists from the State Highway Administration and St ...
Having grown up Catholic in small-town Louisiana, Monique Maddox is devoutly and deliberately faithful, visibly involved in her church. When her time comes, she said, she doesn’t want the priest ...
BALTIMORE – The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation, won’t be returning to its former perch in Baltimore’s Canton ...
Gwen Bankins, 61, stood in a hot, cramped cabin in Southern Maryland on a recent afternoon and thought about the lives that had passed through it. Nearly 180 years ago, her great-great grandfather - ...
CHEVERLY, Md. — The town of Cheverly, Maryland is taking a stand. Council members unanimously voted to remove a plantation from its town seal, saying they were inspired by the Black Lives Matter ...
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General Harriet Tubman Finally Gets Her Due
Harriet Tubman is best known as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She was born around 1820 on a plantation in ...
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