New Blog: Enslavement and Liberation, Interpreted Through Place: Sites to Visit Across Maryland

When interpretation is removed or minimized at historic sites, it sends a message. It raises questions about whose histories are considered central — and whose are treated as secondary or expendable. In Maryland, the history of slavery and liberation is not abstract or distant. It is rooted in specific places: homes, workshops, waterfronts, villages, and landscapes that still exist today. Across the state, local museums and historic sites are working to interpret the lives of enslaved people through exhibitions, archaeology, art, and on-the-ground experiences that visitors can see and walk through themselves.