MSA SC 2221-22

Samuel Green, a Dorchester County Maryland free man of color, was arrested and jailed for possession of  Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.  These documents explore freedom of speech and of the press in a slave state during the 1850s.  See:  R. Blondo, "Samuel Green: A Black's Life in Antebellum Maryland," an unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1988, upon which this document packet is based.

 Review the following (all documents from the Maryland State Archives):

 Maryland Law governing possession of abolitionist literature

 excerpt from Still's Underground Railroad             also in .max format for testing max viewer

 Petition from local residents against freeing Samuel Green (MSA-S1274-56)

 Easton newspaper on appeal for pardon

 Samuel Green meets Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Rick Blondo's Thesis (multilayer tif format viewable with Irfan viewer)
 

Documents also available on the web at the Maryland State Archives site:

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/6180/html/0000.html
 

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