Podcasts Government On The Record From Tobacco to Trucks, the History of the Port of Baltimore

From Tobacco to Trucks, the History of the Port of Baltimore

Published: Feb. 9, 2018, 6:40 p.m.

Jack Burkert, senior educator at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, takes us back to the colonial origin of the Port, moving tobacco and then grain … and to the Port’s alliance with the B----O railroad expanding trade to the west. We hear about the human cargo--slaves, ripped from their families and sold to the South--as well as immigrants who passed through the port, seeking a new life in America.