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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 ...
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.
Runaway slave reward in Maryland. Maryland did not begin as an "official" slave state, although the founders were possible slave traders. It began, as with the story of Mathias de Sousa, as a place that any person that arrived as an indentured servant, could become a free person after they had served the time of their indentureship.
Leah and Kit Anthony ran away with their young children Adam, Mary, and one-year-old Murray. Alice Hill and her son Henry, both of whom were free, ran away with their husband and father, Joseph Hill. Joseph's 25-year-old sister Sarah Jane, who was hired out to another plantation also escaped. Joseph and Sarah Jane were also owned by Pattison. [1]
Slavery in Maryland declined steadily after the 1810s as the state's economy shifted away from plantation agriculture, as evangelicalism and a liberal manumission law encouraged slaveholders to free enslaved people held in bondage, and as other slaveholders practiced "term slavery," registering deeds of manumission but postponing the actual ...
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President Doug Hicks said removing Maxwell Chambers’ name would “erase the first 25 years of our history.” Davidson to keep name of slave owner on campus building. School president explains why
Pages in category "History of slavery in Maryland" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...