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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: 336 Print image (37K) |
| and hate". 90 As a result of the heightened tensions in the state over the issue of slavery, Rev. Green "was arrested and taken from his home 4 April 1857." 91 He was charged with. ..... "possessing a volume of Uncle Tom's Cahin3 a map of Canada, several schedules of routes to the North, a railroad schedule, and a letter from his son in Canada, detailing the pleasant trip he had, the number of friends he met with on the way, . . .and concludes with a request to his father, that he shall tell certain other slaves, naming them, to come on, which slaves, it is well known, did leave shortly afterwards, and have reached Canada." 92 The mere possession of these items put Reverend Green in violation of the Act of 1841, Chapter 272 of the laws of Maryland, which states that, . . . . . ."if any free Negroes or mulatto knowingly have in his or her possession any abolition handbill, pamphlet, newspaper, pictorial representation or other paper of an inflammatory character, having a tendency to create discontent amongst or stir up to insurrection the people of color in this state, he or she shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the Penitentiary of |