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A map of the United States 1860 Presidential Election in Maryland. Items portrayed in this file ... Élection présidentielle américaine de 1860 au Maryland;
The 1860 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Maryland voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
By 1860, more than half of the African Americans in Delaware were free, as were a high proportion in Maryland. [13] According to the 1860 United States census, slaves comprised less than a fifth of the population in all five border states, specifically Kentucky (19.5%), Maryland (12.7%), Missouri (9.7%), West Virginia (4.9%), and Delaware (1.6%).
Map of the Presidential Election of 1860 between Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas German Karte des Wahlmännergremiums für die US-Präsidentenwahl 1860
Maryland was a border state, straddling the North and South. As in Virginia and Delaware, some planters in Maryland had freed their slaves in the years after the Revolutionary War. By 1860 Maryland's free black population comprised 49.1% of the total of African Americans in the state. [4]
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The Civil War divided Baltimore and Maryland's residents. Much of the social and political elite favored the Confederacy—and indeed owned house slaves. In the 1860 election the city's large German element voted not for Lincoln but for Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. They were less concerned with the abolition of slavery, an issue ...
Jonestown is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The Jonestown area was a historic African American community near Ellicott City that was centered on the crossroads where Howard High School is presently located. The town's identity has been mostly absorbed into Ellicott City and Columbia's Long Reach village. [1]