A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS OF
DELAWARE AND MARYLAND'S EASTERN
SHORE
Edited by Carole Marks
Table of Contents
Preface
David Roselle
Introduction
Carole Marks
Black Americans
in Delaware: An Overview
James E. Newton
Black Women in
Delaware's History
Carol Hoffecker and Annette Woolard
Abolitionists,
Free Blacks, and Runaway Slaves Surviving Slavery on
Maryland's Eastern Shore
Clara Small
Diamonds of
Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore: Seven Black Men of
Distinction
James E. Newton and Harmon Carey
Discovering
the Past/Considering the Future: Lessons from the
Eastern Shore
Margaret Andersen
Mighty Oaks:
Five Black Educators
Judith Y. Gibson
The Growth of
Delaware's Antebellum Free African American Community
Peter Dalleo
Black Labor in
Wilmington: Black Occupational Mobility from 1850
to 1910
Emma Amuti
Socioeconomic
Change: A Community in Transition
Theodore J. Davis, Jr.
Interview with
Littleton Mitchell
Sidney Jacobs
Lesson
Plans
Kevin White
Copyright University
of Delaware 1997
Last Updated: July 20, 1997