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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: 48 Print image (40K) |
| 39 a way that they are not alienated from the subject matter. Curricula should be written from a holistic perspective and should celebrate the cultural diversity of the American population. To exclude the historical legacy of the African American or to limit the discussion to the "enslavement" is to present a false notion of "white superiority and black inferiority." "The Afrocentric Idea," Evening Sun, July 3, 1009[sic], C(3). This current Task Force to Study the History and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland, by its very name, expands the research beyond an interest of Africans during the enslavement. The history of slavery in Maryland and the legacy of slavery in Maryland meet at a point along a continuum - at the end of the Civil War. At this point persons of African descent in the eyes of the government could legally take hold of their own destinies. Enslaved Africans made many decisions about their lives on a daily basis - to run, to stay, to marry, to die, or to present themselves in a unique manner. These choices were made out of the need for survival and in most cases were in reaction to the posture their owners. With the emancipation, freedmen throughout the South, including in Maryland which was deemed a "border state," began to search for |