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Enslaved and Free African Americans in Western Maryland

About: Emancipation and the Abolition of Slavery

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A Humbug (Copperhead claim re slaves a lie), 1864
A plan to compensate slave owners, 1863
Abolition of slavery, Cumberland, 1864
Adjournment of state convention, 1864
Be active, earnest and vigilant, 1864
Commissioners meeting and taxes for slaves, 1864
Cumberland slaves arrested in Pennsylvania, 1862
Depreciation in Slave Value, 1864
Manumission of slaves, 1860
Manumissions, 1860
Maryland redeemed - constitution adopted, 1864
Meeting in Cumberland re emancipation, 1863
No equality among laboring class and aristocrats, 1864
Our state election, 1864
Reduction in county assessment with slaves, 1865
The Emancipation Question, 1862.
The State Convention adopts end of slavery, 1864
Vote to end slavery, 1864