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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: 318 Print image (35K) |
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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: 318 Print image (35K) |
| ...a slave woman of Cambridge, Maryland (who) was to have been free from her term of servitude; she had four children in the family, slaves for life, and her husband was also a slave...The night before New Year's she escaped with her husband and children; but about a week later, they were betrayed...and taken back to Cambridge, where a reward of a thousand dollars had been offered for their apprehension. She was to go to the penitenitary, the husband is sold South, and the children are returned to their mistress..... 15 Some members of the community, due to disclosures made to them, believed that . . . Jacob Leverton, had assisted in their escape, and a warning was given him to leave the State, or lynching would be his portion. He took the hint, and when the mob assembled, he was out of their reach . . .His property was sold, and his wife and a family of some eight or ten children were to follow him. 16 Other whites, especially Quakers, who wanted to abolish slavery feared for their lives and loss of property. Free blacks also feared for their lives and lived with constant fear of being re- |