Early Ellicott City Black History: A Historic African American Church, A Log Cabin and Lynching

by Marlena Jareaux, Wayne Davis, Christine Bulbul

Overview

The story of how a group of citizen researchers worked collaboratively in order to correct past omissions and mistakes in the "European settler" story told to decades of Ellicott City Maryland visitors and residents about a beloved log structure there saved by preservationists. The authors never imagined that in the process, they would discover a small homeowning community of Black and Mulatto families living in Ellicott City years before the Civil War and that a Mulatto man is actually who built it the house for his free family. Which history has been considered to be historically "significant" in the country is at the heart of this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798218041083
Publisher:	Howard County Lynching Truth & Reconciliation, Inc
Publication date:	10/28/2023
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	303,345
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Marlena Jareaux has loved Howard County since her family moved there in the mid-1980s. As Executive Director of Howard County Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Inc., she uses her knowledge and training to help bring balance to the historical narrative of the county by using primary source documents.

Wayne Davis is a husband, father of three children, and grandfather of two teenage boys. He is the coauthor of two books and several articles on Howard County history, after a lengthy career as a federal government environmental scientist and researcher.

Christine Bulbul, a twenty-three year Navy veteran, was born in Hyattsville, earned her M.S. in Information Systems from the Naval Postgraduate School, and lives in Howard County.