Henry Harden’s Baltimore

Virtual, Hands on History series, Baltimore National Heritage Area

February 20, 2026, 12-1pm

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 grew 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 transformations in Harden’s story and put them in context with broader trends in Baltimore’s Black community.

Presented By: Teresa S. Moyer’s who's research interests include unearthing the untold stories of Black community leaders. She is the author of Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black History at Mount Clare (University of Florida Press, 2015 [2023]).