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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: 29 Print image (40K) |
| 20 The third factor was slaves themselves. Some clear examples of problems that existed just prior to the Civil War include individuals such as a Daniel Hubbard. He was a free black man who owned property that others wanted because they thought it was valuable. He was told that if he stayed in the area he would die. He was forced to flee to Philadelphia. There was another instance of a Quaker who was trying to help slaves escape. His name was Jacob Leverton. He was told that if he helped a woman, her husband and four children escape he would be in danger of loosing his life also. They escaped anyway and someone pointed a finger at him. Leverton was told that if he did not leave Dorchester County he was going to be killed. This information all comes from court records. That's the only way to find about the nature of slavery because it was not told from the bottom up, not from the perspective of slaves, but from the owners and observers. If we think that slavery was so mild in Maryland, why is that the two most famous fugitives of slavery came from the Eastern Shore? If slavery was that mild, why was slavery so harsh when we see it through court records and if that's the case in Maryland, maybe slavery was a little harsher in other states as well. |