Henry Harden’s Baltimore
Virtual Lecture
It’s More Than History series from Baltimore National Heritage Area
Join a virtual tour of the places where pivotal chapters of Henry Harden’s remarkable life story took place in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Baltimore. A founding member and leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, his story has until now gone untold. Harden gew up enslaved at Mount Clare and The Caves. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, left it to coordinate Bethel A.M.E. Church with Rev. Daniel Coker, then became free. Harden’s foundational story is defined in part by where it took place in Baltimore. Through maps, archival materials and historic accounts, we will trace the places that defined key moments, relationships and transofrmaitons in Hardne’s story and put them into context with broader trends in Baltimore’s Black community.
About the lecturer: Teresa S. Moyer’s research interests include unearthing the untold stories of Black community leaders. She is the author os Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black History at Mount Clare (University of Florida Press, 2015 [2023]).