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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 ...
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.
Tavern of slave trader Joe Johnson, the son-in-law of serial killer Patty Cannon Joseph Johnson, Ebenezer Johnson & Patty Cannon , Northwest Fork Hundred, Delaware [ 42 ] [ 43 ] A. E. Jones, Talbott County, Md. [ 2 ]
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 ]
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. ...
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 ...
Joseph S. Donovan (April 20, 1800 – April 15, 1861) was an American slave trader known for his slave jails in Baltimore, Maryland.Donovan was a major participant in the interregional slave trade, building shipments of enslaved people from the Upper South and delivering them to the Deep South where they would be used, for the most part, on cotton and sugar plantations.
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.