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Colonial courts tended to rule that any person who accepted Christian baptism should be freed. In order to protect the property rights of slaveholders, the colony passed laws to clarify the legal position. [7] In 1692 the Maryland Assembly passed a law explicitly forbidding "miscegenation"—marriage between different races.
Randallstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is named after Christopher and Thomas Randall, two 18th-century tavern-keepers. At that time, Randallstown was a tollgate crossroads on the Liberty Turnpike, a major east–west thoroughfare.
Location of Anne Arundel County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
The Cumberland Road, which subsequently became part of the National Road and later U.S. Route 40, roughly parallel Braddock's Road between Cumberland, Maryland, and Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown. In August 1908 and again during June and July 1909, John Kennedy Lacock , a Harvard professor originally from Amity , in Washington County ...
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Maryland. There are currently 76 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Maryland. Also included are short lists of former NHLs and of other historic sites of national importance administered by the National Park Service.
A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 1800s. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and freed slaves worked and lived together.
The Biscoe Gray Heritage Farm, a site rich in natural and cultural resources, is a living laboratory to explore, understand, and experience Southern Maryland agricultural practices and lifestyles throughout its history—from Native American settlement, small scale colonial farming, 1800s era agriculture and 20th century tobacco farming to ...
Location of Frederick County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Frederick County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...