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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: 161 Print image (43K) |
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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: 161 Print image (43K) |
| 152 In sharp contrast, it stands also as a matter of historic record of discrimination that for the millions of black Africans who perished on the Middle Passage while being brutally transported from Africa to Maryland and other parts of the New World, there exist no public monuments in Maryland to commemorate their innocent victimization. Also, for the millions of blacks who in brutal bondage as slaves helped to build in Maryland and other parts of the New World a comfortable life that we now take for granted, their exist no public monuments in Maryland to commemorate their sacrifice. Through such omission, it is quite apparent that the business of slavery and the oppression and discrimination associated with it is still not finished. Through such omission, Maryland sends a disturbing message not only to African American elders but to millions of black youth who are perplexed that the victimization and sacrifice of their ancestors in this very place still merits no monumental recognition in bronze, granite or marble as they look for meaning in their lives. It is perhaps in large measure because of such public discrimination, through omission if not through commission, that so few blacks may be seen as visitors at Civil War monuments. [See e.g., "The Demons of Gettysburg" by Alien B. Ballard in The Sun, May 30, 1999]. The Task Force find that this is a |