Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery, Inc. 18524 Brooke Rd, 20860 301-774-4066 The museum’s campus has four displays: a cross-section of a slaving clipper ship, a slavery-era log cabin, an arts pavilion and great hall. sandyspringslave museum.org Silver Spring MON F-15 Arrest Site of William Chaplin Jesup Blair Park, Georgia Ave & Blair Rd, 20910 • 301-650-4373 Chaplin, an abolitionist from Albany, NY, was involved in the failed escape of 77 people from Washington, D.C. aboard the schooner Pearl in 1848. Eluding imprisonment then, Chaplin was captured on August 8, 1850 during a desperate shootout with slave catchers on Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring. Both freedom seekers he was transporting were wounded. Northern abolitionists raised his bond of $25,000. There is an outdoor exhibit that describes these events. https://www.hmdb.org/ marker.asp?marker=109230 of industrial slavery in America. The Johnson’s employed some free black labor and were the largest slaveholders in Frederick County when they operated the furnace. At least one enslaved man attempted escape in 1780. Visitors see the charcoal-fi red stone furnace, a re-created casting shed and the ruins of the manor house. Self-guided walking tour information is available at Cunningham Falls State Park Visitor Center. nps.gov/cato/learn/ historyculture/furnace.htm Mount Calvert Historical & Archaeological Park 16801 Mount Calvert Rd, 20772 •301-627-1286 Mount Calvert plantation depended upon enslaved labor from the 1770s to the end of the Civil War. The site is linked to escaped enslaved people through advertisements placed by di erent owners. In 1841, Samuel Berry called for the return of Dick and Charles Sprigg, and owner John Brookes called for the return of his house servants Susan and Arianna. pgparks.com/3007/ Mount-Calvert-Historical-and-Archaeologi The Charlotte Duckett Log Cabin at the Patuxent Rural Life Museum 16000 Croom Airport Rd, 20772 • 301-627-6074 Rare chestnut log tenant farm house from the 1800s, which was probably built by Charles Duckett, a former slave and a landsman in the Union Navy during the Civil War. It is part of the larger Patuxent Rural Life Museums complex, which includes the Duvall Tool Museum, a tobacco museum, a blacksmith shop, and a 1923 Sears, Roebuck and Company simplex house. pgparks.com/3021/Patuxent-Rural-Life-Museums Upper Marlboro PRG G-17 Croom Airport 16000 Croom Airport Rd, 20772 • 301-627-6074 The fi rst African American owned and operated airport on the eastern seaboard. tc-solutions.com/croom/ airport/airport.htm Darnall’s Chance House Museum 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Dr, 20772 • 301-952-8010 The museum highlights the African-American community and mid-18th-century town life in Upper Marlboro. Eight enslaved people have been recorded as escaping from here. Those who escaped were William and his wife Nancy (1820), Basil Duppin, Leander, Camilla Dent, Louisa and John Dent (1832 to 1857) and John Kettle (1860). pgparks.com/3055/Darnalls-Chance-House-Museum Thurmont FRE A-13 Catoctin Iron Furnace and Manor House Ruins 13102 Catoctin Mountain Hwy, 21788 • 410-260-8150 The Johnson Family established the Iron Furnace in 1776. The site depicts the iron making process, which highlights the role CABELL (CAB) CALLOWAY, III (1907–1994) grew up in Baltimore and frequented many local jazz clubs. His band performed regularly at the Cotton Club, and in 1931 he recorded the hit, “Minnie the Moocher.” In 1983, the aging jazz and scat legend performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with his grandson, C. Calloway Brooks, who now directs the Cab Calloway Orchestra. 18 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide
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