Exhibit Introduction
This exhibit was created and designed between 2010 and 2011 in part to
meet matching requirements of a U.S. Department of Education Office of
Post Secondary Education Grant to study the Underground Railroad in
five counties of Maryland's Eastern Shore, including Dorchester,
Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot and Kent. The five panel traveling
exhibit will be displayed in various historical institutions
throughout Maryland. This online version of the exhibit seeks to
provide a gateway into more detailed research materials available at
the Maryland State Archives. It also hopes to reflect the width and
breadth of a ten year project which has thus far uncovered the lives
of more than a hundred thousand Blacks and Whites who struggled with
an institution that was both immensely profitable and morally
reprehensible. For a more expansive review of this study, please
Visit the Beneath The Underground Railroad: The Flight to Freedom
website.
To schedule this exhibit for your location please contact
Emily Oland Squires.