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1 .       Status  and practice as  a border state 2.       Involvement of enslaved Africans in the War effort G.       Population  growth  in  Maryland
1.       Anti-African-American   sentiments   following   the Emancipation   Proclamation
2.       Employment   opportunities   in   Baltimore 3 .       Search for kin by African Americans H.      The  Maryland and Liberian Connection
1.       Return in  1857 of 1451   Africans to land purchased in Liberia
2.       Legacy of Liberians and Marylanders: Living History Project
Recommendations
The  Task  Force  recommends  the  establishment  of a  commission which will  encourage research inclusive of the  following areas:   (a) presentation   of  slavery   and   indentured   servitude,   (b)   presentation of Maryland's  relationship  to  the  Middle  Passage,   (c)  identification and  interpretation  of historic  Maryland  sites   associated  with  the  era of slavery,   and   (d)   historic   African-American   communities   dispersed throughout the  State that developed as  a result of slavery,