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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: 373 Print image (82K) |
| new school had between twenty-five and thirty rooms and an auditorium. More funds had to be raised in order to complete the front of the building, since the original amount was insufficient. The Salisbury First Grade Center is named in his honor. Chipman did not limit his educational endeavors to Salisbury. He was appointed professor of extension education for nine counties on the Eastern Shore in 1918. The Maryland State Department granted him a scholarship to attend Cornell University to take a course tided Family Life and Child Development, and then HEW asked him to give talks and lectures on the course throughout the state and region. He served as an interpreter for the judicial system of Wicomico County because he spoke a foreign language, and for his services the Board of Education allowed him to leave school for an hour and a half daily to serve in that capacity. He served on the advisory board for Salisbury City Council, researched the housing needs of the poor in the county, and was named chairman of the Delmarva Association. He represented the state of Maryland on the Freedom Day Committee in Philadelphia. Other memberships included the Maryland Education Association, of which he was a former president; the Retired Teachers Associations of Maryland and Wicomico County; the Wicomico Nursing Home, which he directed; the Wicomico County Welfare Board; the American Red Cross; the National American Negro Teachers Association; the NAACP; the Chipman Foundation; and the AARP. Chipman served as district superintendent for the Salisbury John Wesley Church (now Wesley Temple), and was primarily responsible for the erection of the first and second edifice. He loved his church and served as black historian for the Peninsula Conference. The church he purchased, saving for history, is now known as the Chipman Cultural Arts Center. Chipman and his wife, Jeannette, purchased this monument to the history and accomplishments of black community members, to "ensure that the contributions of blacks on the Eastern Shore would not be forgotten." In 1985 the Chipman Foundation was established to revive his dream. Sources Chipman, Dr. Charles H. Interviews with the author. January-May 1984. The Daily Tones (25 November 1987): 1. Samuel Green Persecuted Minister Samuel Green lived in Dorchester County, "the center of Maryland's Eastern Shore," and wore the badge of slavery for thirty years. He was a religious man even while he was enslaved, but he was manumitted five years after his master's death in 1831. Similar to Frederick Douglass, Green managed to learn to read and write (while still enslaved), despite the law. By trade he was a blacksmith, which enabled him to purchase his wife, Kitty, and even though he could not free his children, he passed on to them his love of freedom. Green's SOD, Samuel Jr., also a blacksmith, was influenced by none other than Harriet Tubman to escape to Canada in 1854. Green's daughter was sold to a slaveholder in Missouri and was never heard of again, even though she married and was the mother of two children. Rev. Green was a Methodist preacher and in the winter of 1856-57, he visited his son in Canada and was suspected of having helped his son and other slaves to escape. Due to the heightened tensions in the state over the issue of slavery, Rev. Green was arrested and charged with possessing a volume of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a map of Canada, several schedules of routes to the North, a railroad schedule, and a letter from his son in Canada, detailing the pleasant trip he 13 |