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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: 36 Print image (39K) |
| 27 techniques, including getting the most from enslaved Africans. We know much about the demography of planters and other whites in the region regarding their age at marriage which some say related more to the availability of land rather than the ratio of men to women. Marriage also related to the profitability of land. We need a more rigorous evaluation of the demographic changes within the enslaved African population. What were the relationships among males, females, and children on plantations of various sizes and in different regions of the state? No matter how evaluated, slavery was one of the most inhuman treatments of mankind. How did enslaved Africans react to this treatment? We suspect there was a wide range of protests. We certainly need more research on the magnitude of runaways in the regions; the punishment of runaways; the involvement of Maryland sheriffs to arrest runaways. We need to better document legislation affecting runaways. In addition we need to better understand slave revolts in Maryland. The literature seems to characterize South Carolina as the hotbed of slave revolts. Because there is little research on slave revolts in Maryland, it feeds the notion that |