Baltimore printer Mary Katherine Goddard is the first in the new nation to publish the entire Declaration of Independence, including the names of all the signers and boldly adding her own which action makes her liable for treason like all other signers. She is also the Baltimore postmistress.
She later publishes the almanacs of African American self-taught astronomer Benjamin Banneker between 1792- 1797.
In 1850 Baltimore, America’s third largest city, is a singular urban mix of immigrants, free and enslaved Blacks, white leadership and energetic industry. As a border state it is an example of the country’s divisions and challenges before the Civil War.
Isaac Myers purchases a dockyard to employ Black workers and forms them into a caulker’s union in 1866. He is invited to the National Labor Convention in 1869. Ultimately, discrimination forces his union out of the national union.
Louis Goldstein, much loved and much admired, is elected to state comptroller nine times, dying in the middle of his tenth campaign.
We acknowledge the enduring presence of many American Indian tribes who once lived in Maryland and who now, having lost their lands, live in a diaspora. Read more.
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