The first people in your family to arrive in Maryland may have come from Europe.
Perhaps they were brought here by force from Africa. Or maybe they traveled north from Central or South America. Or west from Asia. Alternatively, they may have been among the very first people who arrived much earlier, long before anyone else. The people you will read about here lived long ago and in very different ways from you. Their lives are points on a continuum that began about 13,000 years in the past and persist to the present day. Imagine you were there. . . .
