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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: 67 Print image (27K) |
| 58 Visualize Peter as the African American in a small vessel off Welch Point, Maryland with a rifle over the bow of the boat as depicted in B. H. Latrobe's pencil and watercolor sketch of 1806. 3. Within the MHS Library is the journal of Daniel Coker, "A Descendant of Africa," written by Coker and published in Baltimore by Edward J. Coale in 1820. In 1836, John H.B. Latrobe, Benjamin's son, painted "Maryland In Liberia" - a view of Africa that Coker, one of the founders of the AME Church, never saw. A small box with beaded neck rope and amulet, an African long tooth wood comb, and brown beads on a cord were objects collected in Liberia in 1836. 4. In the Library are numerous broadsides advertising runaway slaves: "The retrieval of the Runaway Slaves, Richard and Ned in Baltimore, May 25, 1819" "Retrieval of Runaway Slave, Harry, Ann Arundel |