All Things Local:Uncovering Roots: Genealogy and the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland

In this episode Carla Wills and Negest Rucker joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss their family connections to slavery in Maryland and the Catholic Church.

Recommended books related to this episode:The 272 : the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns.The ledger and the chain : how domestic slave traders shaped America / Joshua D. RothmanSlavery and freedom on the middle ground : Maryland during the nineteenth century / Barbara Jeanne Fields.Facing Georgetown's history : a reader on slavery, memory, and reconciliation / edited by Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza.The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist.Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 / Allan Kulikoff.Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno.

Music used in this episodeTitle: Good Kids InstAuthor: HoliznaRAPS/https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/Source: Free Music Archive / https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/