Class Notes 2/23

Greetings All.

Class Notes for February 23rd, 2009

Agenda 2/23/09

HIST429L

--Reminder of draft due dates: April 6^th

--Research due dates: Turn in all research findings to writing group by March 13^th. Extended deadline can be arranged if needed

Public Relations

--Met with Diamondback last Tuesday

--Story in Process, nothing set in stone yet

--March 4^th, Meeting with President Mote

--Statement of purpose from him

--Need to decide what the group wants to tell; create a presentation

--Follow up invitations from Washington Post, Annapolis Newspaper

Writing Group

--Rough draft of introduction

--When groups turn in their research, they need to provide a short paragraph to explain the information

--Thesis point of the research

Maryland Room

--1850/1860 first time Census uses names

--Need to create spread sheet: how many people living in the districts? How many households? Total population? Whites? Free blacks? Slaves?

--Biographical dictionary of legislator

--Sense of leadership: who they are/what is the Agricultural College about?

Historical Societies

--Went to the Sandy Spring Museum

-- A lot of information on Hallowell and the school in Alexandria

--Autobiography/letters still left to go through

--Would like to explore story of Hallowell and Calvert conflicting with slavery

State Archives

--1861 P.G. assessment records; list of household from maps

--Tax values/property/value of slaves (Calvert owed $6,000 of slaves)

--Economic biography

--Information on surrounding planters

--Need sense of slaveholding in the area; more than 20 planters= planterclass

--Sense of structure of slaveholders

--Runaway slave ads

--Land records

--Goals: find deads to find records of school land

--Wills and inventories

--"Stones and Bones": cementary records

Riversdale

--Splitting up Plummers diary

--Research Calvert's other family

--Provided suggestions on rough draft.

Wednesday: Discuss plan for meeting with President Mot

Class Notes 2/16

Greetings all,

Find below the Class Notes for February 16th, 2009

Minutes from February 16, 2009 Meeting of HIST429L

• New Blog on website. To update, need to create a gmail account and email rkrublit@umd.edu to gain access.
• Meeting with President Mote March 4^th 9 AM
• Report Structure
• What was the impact of slavery on the founding and early life of the University of Maryland College Park?
• I. Calvert: Slave owner and founder
• Multiple families
• Calvert's slaves
• II. Slavery in the area
• Plummer family
• III. Trust holders/ Professors/ Students
• IV. Hallowell
• V. Government funding
• VI. UMD role during the Civil War/Reconstruction
• VII. Neighboring Communities
• Census listings/ names of households and their slaves
• Writing committee: Rough draft of introduction, will send before Monday
• Need to designate one member of each group as a secretary, someone who will update the blog each Sunday night.
• Research Groups:
• Maryland State Archives: Going this Friday. Will use the online sources/ field trip to get archives pulled
• Historical Society: Hallowell Papers
• Maryland Room: Look up Census 1850/1860 and provide information on slaves, residents of the area, etc. to Maryland State group.

State Archives Update

Greetings all,

As far as the Archives group, we have had several discoveries and are making some real progress. Chris is made up a great sheet (on wiki) on surrounding neighbors and slave ads found, showing that they was definitely a slave rpescense near the campus. I am working on wills, and have found Charles B. Calvert's, Robert Clark's, and John Eversfield in the archives. Ross is doing tax assessments and has copied all the 1861 info out of the general tax ledger for the surrounding peoples, lots of good info and proves Chris' findngs. Ana and Bekah are both utilizing the online resources of land records and manumission records, as well as looking through the Stones and Bones book.

Hopefully this week we can begin to put it all together. I think it is safe to say that there were deifinitly slaves in close proximity to the campus on all sides. Cheers,

Donny

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