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Enslaved and Free African Americans in Western Maryland

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"Loyal Maryland" - punished for being loyal, 1863
14 Runaways, 1852
15 runaways, 1846
69 slaves in jail, 1850
A Colored Boy for Sale or Hire, 1857
A Colored Girl for Sale, 1856
A Desperate Act, 1857
A Humbug (Copperhead claim re slaves a lie), 1864
A mark of no good neighborhood, 1853
A Maryland Criminal, William,1846
A plan to compensate slave owners, 1863
A Slave Stampede, 1857
A slave stampede. 1852
A telegraph to Chambersburg - to catch Runaways, 1853
Abduction of slave from Poolesville by Canal Captain, 1856
Abolition of slavery, Cumberland, 1864
Adjournment of state convention, 1864
Admitting slaves, 1850
Aid to fleeing slaves, 1850
Allegany County Court, 1851
An Incendiary Attempt, 1857
Another stampede of slaves, 1852
Application for pardon, Allegany County, 1864
Apprehended -Slaves belonging to Booth and Rench, 1857
Arrested-Negro man belonging to Dr. Wilson, 1857
Arrested, 1852
Auspicious move - repeal of Pennsylvania law, 1850
Be active, earnest and vigilant, 1864
Ben Johnson, runaway from Tennant, Sharpsburg, 1831
Bethel Church Dinner, 1865
Cash for negroes, 1832
Charged with being negroes, 1855
Circuit court hears cases against free negroes & slaves, 1853
Colonization Society meeting, 1851
Colored and white canal hands fight, 1853
Colored Boy for sale, 1857
Colored convicts, 1862
Colored Girl for Sale, 1857
Colored man injured on canal, 1853
Colored woman's house burnt, 1855
Commissioners meeting and taxes for slaves, 1864
Contraband in county, 1862
Contributions to purchase freedom, 1852
Cumberland negroes burned to death, 1863
Cumberland negros for hire by Hilleary, 1845
Cumberland slaves arrested in Pennsylvania, 1862
Davey, runway from Conn, Boonsborough, 1796
Death of a patriot, 1852
Depreciation in Slave Value, 1864
Elias Dowling, runaway, worked on canal, 1850
Emigrating to Pennsylvania, 1849
Enlisting Slaves, 1863
Ethelbert Taney's slave shot in Hancock, 1848
Farmers using "contrabands", 1862