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From: Kathi Jones-Hudson <>
Subject: [MDGEN] Re: MDGEN-D Digest V02 #77
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 10:19:29 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <200204070439.g374d6q18203@lists5.rootsweb.com>


Walter:

There is at least one early freedman community in
Montgomery Co. (Sandy Spring) and probably others
throughout the state.

However, if you are saying that you believe Maryland
freed all of it's slaves in general before the Civil
War, I would really doubt that. Maryland was heavily
into tobacco farming, very labor intensive and there
were alot of slaves in the state and the farmers were
very dependant on their labor.

Don't forget where the Lincoln assassination
conspirators all lived -- southern Maryland. We were
pro-south and pro-slave during the Civil War. John
Wilkes Booth is buried in Baltimore.

Kathi Jones-Hudson

> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:35:38 EST
> From:
> To:
> Subject: [MDGEN] Re: black registry?
>
> It's my understanding Maryland freed the slaves
> before the Civil war, in
> 1810. It required the freed bondsmen to register in
> order to be free.
> Question is the register data online?
>
> Walter Moody
>


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