What did freedom mean to the enslaved of Montgomery County, MD?
What happened to them? What could they do and where could they go when they had nothing, and may not have known where to go and how to get there? Learning about our historic Black communities in Montgomery County, MD.
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Farms or Plantations? MoCoLMP’s Mapping Project Responds
Did 1860s Montgomery County, MD have farms or plantations? Language is important.
Agricultural Sites of Enslavement In Montgomery County: Farms or Plantations?
Classifying places of enslavement in Montgomery County, MD: plantations or farms?
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Montgomery County in the early 1860s
MoCoLMP is naming & mapping enslavers & enslaved in 1860s Montgomery County, MD, and researching their connections to the 110 named historic Black communities that sprang up around them.
Racial Covenants Workshop
MoCoLMP held a workshop on how to search house titles for racially restrictive covenants and how to have them removed.
Maryland Black History: Naming the Enslaved
At the MD State Archives looking for names of Montgomery County, MD enslaved & enslavers in the early 1860s.
New MoCoLMP Projects Get Off the Ground
New projects include Mapping Plantations, Mapping Historic Black Communities, Oral History, and Researching Racial Violence.
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