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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: 33 Print image (37K) |
| 24 larger picture in Maryland, in which some slaves began to be able to buy their freedom. It so happens that the particular labor conditions for slaves at the Baltimore Company is one area of special focus for our planned research at Carroll's Hundred. To truly understand the American experience, we have to understand it from its origins during this period in which our unique identity and national values were being formed. The road to the Civil War, and the eradication of slavery, starts here during the Revolutionary period, in which the dialogue about freedom and democracy took shape. Research into the individual beliefs of these early Americans and what they felt their connection was to the possibilities of personal liberty at this time will be very important to our understanding of who we are as Americans today, and how our national identities have come about. [Excerpt from Written Submission of Dr. Charles M. Christian, University of Maryland College Park] In 1995, my book, Black Saga: The African American Experience^ was published by Houghton Mifflin. Henry Louis Gates, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Afro-American |