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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: 13 Print image (40K) |
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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: 13 Print image (40K) |
| persuaded that this legacy of Maryland requires substantial comprehensive planning based on adequate financial support. Intergroup education upgrading cannot be obtained 'on the cheap.'" In view of such findings as these which are detailed in the 475 pages of this Report which follow, the Task Force to Study the History and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland offers the following Executive Summary of its recommendations. All references in these recommendations to a commission refer to a single comprehensive commission. The Task Force views it as essential that this single non-regulatory commission be supplied with adequate staff and budget and recommends that it be known as "The Commission to Coordinate the Study3 Commemoration^ and Impact of Slavery's History and Leeacv in Marvland " 1 . Research 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 |