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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 26 Print image (37K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 26 Print image (37K) |
| 1 7 my students to do research because otherwise it would not be done. I write about slavery and spend most of my time looking through microfilm because most of the records are not in print. They're not written. There are few artifacts such as —— at Colonial Williamsburg or at Somerset Place in Crescent North Carolina. The information just is not there. For example, on the Eastern Shore, there is nothing that we have of Fredrick Douglass other than a huge sign. There is nothing but an informational sign of Harriet Tubman. We don't have artifacts. We are forced to go through the courts for records and search through thousands upon thousands of reels of microfilm. That is the only way it can be done aside from recording the history of individuals who have memories of what their parents and grandparents told them. That is another reason I insist on interviewing everyone that I can. The problem is you need money in order to have them transcribed. You can't transcribe, interview, and record all at the same time. It is an impossible task. Just to look at one segment of history on the Eastern Shore, the Civil War. I have been looking at the history of slavery just prior to the Civil War. |