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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: 327 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: 327 Print image (41K) |
| hands of overseers and others who worked for Anthony and Frederick's other masters, or slave breakers, such as Edward Covey. In describing the peculiar institution in his autobiography,_My Bondage and My Freedom3 Frederick Douglass stated that "it is generally supposed that slavery, in the state of Maryland; exists in its mildest form, and that it is totally divested of those harsh and terrible pecularities, which mark and characterize the slave system, in the southern and south-western states." 45 He takes into account the manner in which public opinion has tempered .... ...."the cruelty and barbarity of master, overseers, and slave-drivers, whenever it can reach them; but there are certain secluded and out-of-the way places ...seldom visited by a single ray of healthy public sentiment, -where slavery, wrapt in its own congenial, midnight darkness, can, and does develop all its malign and shocking characteristics, where it can be indecent without shame, cruel without shuddering, and murderous without apprehension or fear of exposure."46 One of those "secluded, dark, out-of-the way places, is the "home plantation" of Colonel Edward Lloyd, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 47 The Lloyd Plantation was the site upon which Douglass witnessed the most inhuman examples of slavery; including the |