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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: 303 Print image (44K) |
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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: 303 Print image (44K) |
| and James M. McPherson (eds.), Region: Race3 and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward (New York, 1982)), Fields argues that class distinctions outweighed racial prejudice in accounting for blacks' relegation to a separate and inferior status in Maryland. This study does not seek to challenge that assertion. Clearly, issues pertaining to class permeated relations between white planters and their ex-slaves and may well indeed have dictated the content of white racism in the state. The point here is rather that racial antagonism, whatever its origins, fueled the opposition of white conservatives to any advancement sought by blacks and undermined the reform philosophy of sympathetic white radicals. The manner in which such prejudice shaped the eventual outcome of post-emancipation race relations in Maryland is the topic of this book, not the nature of its origins. Charles L. Wagandt's The Mighty Revolution: Negro Emancipation in Maryland3 1862-1864 (Baltimore, 1964), provides excellent coverage and analysis of the issues leading to emancipation, and Margaret L. Callcott's The Negro in Maryland Politics, 1870-1912 (Baltimore, 1969) offers similar treatment of the generation after the passage of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Leroy Graham's Baltimore: Nineteenth Century Black |