The names included on the antebellum Maryland maps are men and women who owned
property. They most likely paid a fee to the map-maker to have their
names included. Unfortunately, maps with property owners listed only
exist for thirteen of Maryland's counties. These maps allow us to place
thousands of the more well-off members of Antebellum Maryland society.
As property owners in antebellum Maryland, many of those included on
the maps were likely to have owned slaves. When possible, the Maryland
State Archives performs research to connect the names of slaves with
their owners in order to locate enslaved as well as free residents of
Antebellum Maryland. These maps provide historians and genealogists
with a powerful new tool for research.
Samuel
Carr, Owner
Runaway Slave Advertisement
Bazel
Stanmore (Source: Baltimore Weekly Sun, 6/20/1853, Maryland State Law Library)
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