Showing posts with label MD: Queen Anne's County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MD: Queen Anne's County. Show all posts

April 25, 2012

Old Starr Methodist Church, Starr, MD

Also once known as the Richard Asbury Methodist Church. Originally, a predominantly white congregation, I believe the current congregation is mostly, if not all, African American.

One of only two remaining churches in Queen Anne's County, MD to have a separate entrance for slaves. This side entrance went directly to the stairs that led up to the slave gallery.

At first I thought that the stairs to the slaves entrance was no longer standing (see attached photos: the side entrance is a good 3-4 feet off the ground), but I have since read accounts that the practice was for the enslaved folks to transition directly from the carriage to the entrance.

I am utterly fascinated that these bits of history still remain on our landscape.

April 13, 2012

Dudley's Methodist Chapel, Sudlersville, MD: The Interior

I was incredibly lucky to have been allowed into the Chapel to take photos. There is no electricity and the slave gallery is still intact.

Slave gallery:

Where the stairs leading to the gallery were:

Dudley's Methodist Chapel, Sudlersville, MD


View of the Chapel from the segregated African American burial area:

Segregated African American burial area:

White burial area is all around the Chapel:

There had once been an addition on the back of the Chapel:

Beautiful witness tree that guards the African American burial area: