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


PART ONE

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


PART TWO

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


PART THREE

Lesson Plans
Kevin White


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