Exploring Black Cultural Resiliency

Black Folkways is a community-driven public humanities initiative that uses spatial storytelling and oral histories to document and preserve Black cultural and environmental knowledge across coastal landscapes in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay region, Washington D.C., and Cat Island in the Bahamas. The project addresses the challenge of documenting lifestyles and histories of African American agricultural and maritime workers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were raised within free and enslaved African American communities.