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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 ...
Between 1764 and 1774, seventeen slaves appeared in Massachusetts courts to sue their owners for freedom. [45] In 1766, John Adams' colleague Benjamin Kent won the first trial in the United States (and Massachusetts) to free a slave (Slew vs. Whipple). [5] [46] [47] [6] [7] [48] There were three other trials that are noteworthy, two civil and ...
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.
History of slavery in Maryland; 0–9. 1838 Jesuit slave sale; A. The American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper; C. Bernard M. Campbell and Walter L. Campbell;
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OAH Magazine of History 15.2 (2001): 6–13; historiography online. Webber, Thomas L. Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831–1865 (W.W. Norton, 1981) Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009) online. Woodson, C. G.
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