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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: 114 Print image (41K) |
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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: 114 Print image (41K) |
| 105 slaves, unrelated to those freed, to operate the estate. In one generation the archives show chain and neck collar purchased "for a negro boy", and ads to recover runaways. In another a former slave is buried in the Ridgely cemetery, and a Ridgely daughter served as a missionary in Liberia for eighteen years in an effort to atone for her family's slave-owning history. The enslaved people of Hampton were involved at the iron works (a major source of the Ridgely fortune) as well as the agricultural labor involved in maintaining the home farm, domestic work, and specialized activities such as thoroughbred raising and racing. The Task Force finds it to some extent a measure of failure by society that the mass media which have largely been called upon to answer questions of young people about who they are in view of the history and legacy of slavery have been media associated with popular musicians largely vested in rhyme, poetic license, commercialism, and even sensationalism. As young people dance into the next century to popular musical interpretations about slavery and its legacy, the messages that they receive are often self-deprecating, horrific, and confused. Mass media which offer more than entertainment have a responsibility to help the public to |