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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A White Unionist testifies on the abuses of the apprenticeship system to bind large numbers of Black children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[John Graham to Majr Genl Lew Wallace on the scale of the apprenticeship crisis: Black children in Worchester County are &quot;carried from different portions of the County in ox Carts, waggons, and carriages to the County town (Cambridge) to be carried before the Court to be bound out as apprentices.&quot;  File includes a massive number of enclosures, mostly dealing with apprenticeship and illegal enslavement after Maryland passed an emancipation measure in its Constitution of 1864.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/15/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Worchester County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/61">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Amid widespread abuses of the apprenticeship system to bind formerly enslaved children, Governor Bradford complains about oversight efforts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[James C. Mullikin (ADC) to H.H. Lockwood (3d sep brig) notifying him on abuses of apprenticeship system and suggesting the implementation of martial law in relevant counties on the Eastern Shore. Followed by A.W. Bradford (Gov of MD) to Gen. Lew Wallace (comdg Middle Dept) complaining of Wallace&#039;s General Order No. 112, which provided protections for formerly enslaved people from the apprenticeship system under which formerly enslaved children were widely bound to their former enslavers on the Eastern Shore. Under antebellum Maryland law, Bradford argued, &quot;provision is made for binding out the minor children of free persons of color who have not the means or are unwilling themselves to take care of their offspring.&quot; This practice of apprenticeship, Bradford claimed, grew from the &quot;necessity of taking care of an infant class thus suddenly deprived of the support to which they had been accustomed.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/9/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Eastern Shore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/20">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black drummer boy Reason Brown petitions for furlough to visit his family in Maryland]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reason Brown to the Sec. of War Brown is a 14 yr old drummer boy. He has been in the army for 14 months, has applied 3 times for a furlough and cannot get one. He wants to visit family in MD-officers tell him he is too young to want to visit his family.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/21/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Alexandria, VA; St. Mary&#039;s County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/25">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Formerly enslaved Matilda Johnson petitions the Freedmen&#039;s Bureau for the return of her children and household goods, after which the agency waived her right to her children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Series of complaints around property rights and apprenticeship for Black residents of Anne Arundel County. Of special interest are the two complaints by Matilda Johnson relating to her children and household goods being held illegally by by James Boyle. Resolution of the case indicates that while the Freedmen&#039;s Bureau had intervened to have her children returned, Boyle was successful in getting permission to retrieve them under previous apprenticeship proceedings. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/29/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Anne Arundel Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/43">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black Woman Barbara Diggs petitions for the release of her children, who were bound out against her will]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Statement of Barbara Diggs, a free woman of color, whose children &quot;are slaves of Dr. Featherbridge of Talbot Co Md&quot; he &quot;claiming the right of binding them to him.&quot; File includes a massive number of enclosures, mostly dealing with apprenticeship and illegal enslavement after Maryland passed an emancipation measure in its Constitution of 1864. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/14/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Talbot County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/54">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[General Henry H. Lockwood attempts to break up the abusive apprenticeship system on the Eastern Shore, but is countermanded by headquarters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Extract from Samuel B. Lawrence (AAG 8th AC) to Henry H. Lockwood (Comdg. 3rd sep brig) from Special Order No. 112 breaking up the widely abused apprentice system that bound formerly enslaved children to their former enslavers against the wishes of their parents. Includes copy of a telegram suspending that order, which left the apprenticeship system in place, as well as Lockwood&#039;s reply in protest of the decision.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Eastern Shore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/2">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Henrietta Emory explains that she is too poor to provide evidence in her pension case]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:alternative><![CDATA[A-4102]]></dcterms:alternative>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contains a series of petitions from Henrietta Emory (wife of deceased James Emory) to various claims agents requesting assistance obtaining the back pay and pension due her upon the death of her husband. She spells out the difficulty that many Black families had accessing the benefits to which they were legally entitled. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/24/1867]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Long Marsh, Queen Anne&#039;s Co]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/18">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jane Uncles testifies that her formerly enslaved daughter was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for defending herself during a beating by her enslaver]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:alternative><![CDATA[A-9884]]></dcterms:alternative>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Affidavit of Jane Uncles, who says that in 1863 her 15 year old daughter was convicted of striking her mistress &amp; sentenced to 10 years in prison; Uncles says that her daughter defended herself from the beating which her enslaver was in the process of administering to her; the daughter is still in jail. The endorsement notes the right of any of God’s living creatures to defend themselves.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/21/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Howard Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/34">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kitty Bowland claims her son was illegally arrested and forced into the Army]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Statement of Mrs. Kitty Bowland that her son was arrested and then impressed into the army by the local justice of the peace.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/31/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Ellicott City, Baltimore Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/59">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne (AAPMG for MD &amp; DE) directing him to send the deputy pro mar at Salsbury &quot;to compel Joshua W Phillips, in Barren Creek District Somerset Co, to deliver to Sarah Parsons (colored) all her children now withheld from her by said Phillips.&quot; If Phillips refused, he was to be arrested and sent to Baltimore.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Somerset County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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