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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 the Civil War. While Maryland developed similarly to neighboring Virginia , slavery declined in Maryland as an institution earlier, and it had the largest free black population by 1860 of any ...
Laws criminalizing marriage and sex between white and black people were enacted in colonial era Maryland, and not repealed until just before the Supreme Court ruled on Loving v. Virginia in 1967, further reinforcing segregation in the state. The 13th Amendment ended slavery and the 14th Amendment extended full rights of citizenship to African ...
The new Maryland state constitution of 1864 ended slavery and provided for the education of all children, including black people. The Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People established schools for black people that were taken over by the public school system, which then restricted education for ...
An African man indentured in Maryland who amassed sizable landholding and had indentured servants and enslaved people in the 1600s. Signature Anthony Johnson ( c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia .
Maryland, as a slave-holding border state, was deeply divided over the antebellum arguments over states' rights and the future of slavery in the Union. [1] Culturally, geographically and economically, Maryland found herself neither one thing nor another, a unique blend of Southern agrarianism and Northern mercantilism. [ 1 ]
As in many other states, the late 19th century saw a dramatic growth in Maryland's African American press, with 31 newspapers launched in Baltimore before 1900. [3] Most were short-lived. A notable exception was The Afro-American , which launched in Baltimore in 1892 and continues today.
Twenty-eight enslaved men, women and children escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A group of 28 enslaved people from Maryland escaped their slaveholders on October 24, 1857. They were a group of two dozen enslaved men, women, and children who fled from Dorchester County, Maryland.
Anti-black racism in Maryland (5 C, 9 P) B. African-American history in Baltimore (7 C, 98 P) ... History of slavery in Maryland; History of St. Mary's College of ...