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    Slavery in Maryland lasted over 200 years, from its beginnings in 1642 when the first Africans were brought as slaves to St. Mary's City, to its end after...
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    recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North...
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    Economic history of Colonial Maryland History of slavery in Maryland Freedom of religion in the United States Plundering Time Battle of the Severn List of National...
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    The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many...
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    The history of slavery in Delaware began when it was Delaware Colony and continued until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865...
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  • Constitution of the State of Maryland, which was ratified by the people of the state on September 18, 1867, forms the basic law for the U.S. state of Maryland. It...
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    John P. Kennedy (category History of slavery in Maryland)
    its Speaker in 1847. Kennedy later helped lead the effort to end slavery in Maryland, which, as a non-Confederate state, was not affected by the Emancipation...
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    institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America...
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    Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West Africa...
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  • The Maryland Constitution of 1864 was the third of the four constitutions which have governed the U.S. state of Maryland. A controversial product of the...
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    of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The state park preserves the site of an...
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    Charles Dickinson (attorney and duelist) (category History of slavery in Maryland)
    a house in Maryland for three years before moving to Tennessee, where he became a successful horse breeder and plantation owner. A history of Caroline...
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  • Maryland's colonial economic history is marked by a heavy reliance on the tobacco crop. Though it would remain a slave state until the end of the Civil...
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    History of slavery in Maryland History of slavery in Massachusetts History of slavery in New Jersey History of slavery in New York History of slavery...
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    would take the outbreak of the Civil War to bring slavery to an end in Maryland. The Maryland Colonization Society was founded in 1827, and its first president...
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    The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War. In 1830, enslaved...
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    Slavery in Georgia is known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed...
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    Union control by 1864, adopted an anti-slavery constitution in March of that year. The border states of Maryland (November 1864) and Missouri (January...
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    Thomas Swann (category History of slavery in Maryland)
    officially remained in the Union; President Lincoln feared that ending slavery there at the height of the Civil War would cause Maryland to leave the Union...
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  • Maryland State Library. In 1981, historian Robert Emmett Curran presented comprehensive research into the Maryland Jesuits' participation in slavery at...
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    Doughoregan Manor (category History of slavery in Maryland)
    located on Manor Lane west of Ellicott City, Maryland, United States. Established in the early 18th century as the seat of Maryland's prominent Carroll family...
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    Shore, Maryland, and Natchez Samuel Martin Woolfolk, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Natchez C. A. Yeats, Port Tobacco, Md. History of slavery in Maryland List...
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    History of slavery in Kentucky History of slavery in Maryland History of slavery in Missouri History of slavery in New Mexico History of slavery in Oklahoma...
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    Jonathan M. Wilson (category History of slavery in Maryland)
    markets and slave jails in the United States History of slavery in Maryland History of slavery in Louisiana George Kephart – American slave trader (1811–1888)...
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  • Maryland portal Southern Maryland Beachville-St. Inigoes, Maryland Tidewater accent Smith Island, Maryland History of Maryland History of slavery in Maryland...
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    of Maryland Colonial families of Maryland History of Maryland History of slavery in Maryland Thomas Cresap Lord Baltimore penny Economic history of Colonial...
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    Bernard M. Campbell and Walter L. Campbell (category History of slavery in Maryland)
    of Poindexter & Little and R. H. Elam List of American slave traders Christiana Riot History of Baltimore History of slavery in Maryland History of African...
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    Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued...
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    equivalent to $457,800 in 2023. The Maryland Province Jesuits opposed the slave trade, but not slavery in practice. During the years of slavery and after the American...
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