Through the Tax Assessor's Eyes: Enslaved People, Free Blacks and Slaveholders in Early Nineteenth Century Baltimore [Maryland]
- ISBN-10
- 0806358580
- ISBN-13
- 9780806358581
- Category
- Reference
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-30
- Publisher
- Clearfield
- Authors
- Donna Tyler Hollie, Noreen J. Goodson
Description
This book uses the Baltimore City Tax Assessor's Ledger, 1813, and the ledgers for 1818, which the authors researched in their original format at the Baltimore City Archives.
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