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Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade. From an Abstract of Evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons of Great Britain in 1790 and 1791. The first documented Africans were brought to Maryland in 1642, as 13 slaves at St. Mary's City , the first English settlement in the Province. [ 7 ]
Samuel Galloway III (1720 – 1785) was a planter, merchant and slave trader in colonial Anne Arundel County, Maryland.Alongside his partner Thomas Ringgold, Galloway became one of Maryland's most prolific slave traders, responsible for contracting the ship that brought one of the last shipments of slaves from Angola to Maryland during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
This is a list of slave traders working in Maryland and Delaware from 1776 until 1865: G. T. Allen [ 1 ] David Anderson , Kentucky [ 2 ] and Baltimore (?) [ 3 ]
Lord Ligonier was an 18th-century British slave ship built in New England that unloaded enslaved Africans in Annapolis, Maryland in 1767. The ship was made famous by Alex Haley's novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, in which it brought his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, from The Gambia to the colonial United States.
Charity was born into slavery and held by Maryland Governor Samuel Ogle.Until the age of 10 or 12, Charity lived at Belair Plantation with her mother, Rachel Burke, and brother James; her father is believed to have been plantation manager Colonel Benjamin Tasker, Jr. [2] She was transferred to the ownership of Annapolis's John Ridout.
Crews in state capital Annapolis hitched straps overnight to the 145-year-old bronze statue outside State House and lifted it from its base with a crane.
Slavery, abolition Mahoney v Ashton was a slavery case brought before the General Court of the Western Shore in Annapolis , Maryland in 1791. On October 18, 1791, enslaved man Charles Mahoney filed a petition for freedom before the court against his owner, Father John Ashton, a Roman Catholic priest and former Jesuit .
Residents of the Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School play basketball behind razor-wire fencing as Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich speaks during a press conference in June 2005. The governor announced the closing of the facility in light of an investigation by the Department of Justice that found civil rights violations during Correctional Services Corp ...