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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: 305 Print image (39K) |
| informative but dated rendition of events in the Reconstruction period and after. For other secondary literature related to this study, see the bibliography. Two recent published collections of primary documents enhance greatly our access to the events surrounding emancipation in the state. Both are volumes in the series; Freedom: A Documentary History of Rmancipation3 1861-18673 Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States. The first is edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thaviola Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, and is entitled Series I: Volume I: The Destruction of Slavery (New York, 1985). The second, edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie Rowland, is entitled Series II: The Black Military Experience (New York, 1984). Both volumes contain documents related directly to Maryland many of which are taken from the records of the United States Army and the Freedmen's Bureau, collections used extensively in this book. 2. Since the 1950s, hundreds of books and articles have addressed southern white opposition to the aspirations of freed slaves. Some of the best of these appeared in the late 1950s and early to mid 1960s as part of what since has been called the "neo- |