Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)
William Holland
MSA SC 5496-51623
Slaveholder/State Delegate, Committee on Colored Population, Dorchester County
Biography:
William Holland represented Dorchester County in the
Thought there is little evidence that Holland had been a recent victim
of slave flight, he undoubtedly had neighbors and relations who lost
members of their labor force. Interestingly, the Dorchester farmer had
lived just down the road from Samuel Green Sr. Green was a free African American, who became the target of local whites
after a rash of fugitive escapes in 1857. Holland's former neighbor was
ultimately jailed for possession of the "abolitionist handbill" Uncle Tom's Cabin, when his involvement in the escapes could not be proven.
Mr.
Holland, from the committee on Colored Population, made the following
minority report: A bill entitled, an act to amend the 65th article of
thecode of public local laws, by repealing the 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th,
46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 53d, 55th, 56th,
57th, 58th and
59th sections of said article, and inserting inlieu thereof, the
following sections providing agents for the management of free negroes,
and prescribing their powers and duties; prohibiting manumission and
the acquiring of land by free negroes, or granting license to them, and
forbidding and punishing the immigration of free negroes; Also, the
bill entitled, an act to repeal the 19th article of the code of public
general laws, which provides for the appointment of managers for the
removal of free negroes, prescribes their powers and duties, and the
mode of their exercise;
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