Maryland’s 18 ways to stop the mass incarceration of Black people
The offices of Maryland’s attorney general and public defender teamed up to release their first report on the issue.
Del. McCaskill and Sen. Muse: Maryland needs a reparations commission
Maryland must take a meaningful step toward justice by creating a commission to study reparations, writes Del. Aletheia ...
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The Slavery Question in Maryland Effect of the Abolition Agitation.
Forty years ago neither Maryland nor her sister State, Virginia, contained a man who desired the perpetuation of Slavery. Both States set to work in earnest to provide for the difficult and ...
The Baltimore Banner5d
Hampton plantation site tells the history of slavery – and of Towson. Will the Trump administration erase that?
The Hampton National Historic Site near Towson tells the history of slavery at a former plantation site in Baltimore County.
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Law school project finds slavery citations still being used today
who had forced Margaret Morgan and her children into slavery in Maryland. The U.S. Constitution clearly granted “to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ownership in ...
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Prison slavery makes millions for states like Maryland. What will it take to achieve change?
Maryland State Police is using it ... Lonnell Sligh: The blessing of me going to Kansas, I saw the other side of that slave industry that we called and we thought about for so many years.
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Jesuit-aided effort benefiting former slaves' descendants seeks to atone for 'sinful' past
the ship that had carried the slaves from Maryland to Louisiana in 1838. There, her mother recognized several people with her maiden name – and the name of her great-grandfather. As Maddox ...
India Today on MSN7d
She fled slavery, then risked capture 13 times to free others by a secret route
Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she ...
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Virgina recognizes slavery
By 1640, the Virginia courts had sentenced at least one black servant to slavery . . . Three servants working for a farmer named Hugh Gwyn ran away to Maryland. Two were white; one was black.
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Frederick Douglass
The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He spent his early years with his grandparents ...
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Who were Margaret Morgan and Edward Prigg?
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Margaret Morgan, born into slavery in Maryland, had been living with her husband and their children in the free state of Pennsylvania for five years when hired slave ...
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Michigan State law school project finds slavery citations still being used today
who had forced Margaret Morgan and her children into slavery in Maryland. The U.S. Constitution clearly granted “to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ...