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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Black church elder reports the destruction of his church and the army investigates]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Brig. Gen. H.H. Lockwood to Capt. O. Matthews reporting that James Ross, and elder of Western Md Circuit, reports that a Black church near Reisterstown was torn down and its members harassed. Includes endorsements from Gen. Lewis Wallace and others ordering an investigation and possible tax assessment levied on disloyalists in neighborhood to pay for rebuilding Black churches. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/19/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Reisterstown, Maryland]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/22">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Black recruiter explains that enslaved Marylanders want to join the Union Army, but only if they are paid and treated equitably]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[G.A. Hackett to Col. Lawrence (AAG) relating his experiences in recruiting Black soldiers (slave and free) in and around the area of Middle River, Baltimore County. Following up on Gen. Wallace’s advice that recruiting expeditions should take place among the rebel slaveholders, Hackett discovers that slaves were eager to join the Union army. But only after assurances that they would not be used as breast-work, that the government wouldn’t deceive them concerning wages and that they would not be returned to their masters. Hackett declares that, ’’Some of their masters who were much attached to their slaves, were unwilling to believe that they had assented (to enlistment), until they question them in the presence of Lt. Frick...” &quot;Some of them were told by their masters to make themselves either younger or older than the required age, as the case may be.&quot; &quot;One of their masters called them to one side and told them they should be free as soon as they got to Baltimore.&quot; &quot;But they refused to rely on their master’s promises any longer.” Page four of the letter contains a list of fourteen slaves and freemen who enlisted. Hackett talked to some Black recruits who declare that, &quot;plenty of men could be found, and that they would bring, by their appearance in uniform the men around them like bees to the hive.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[7/6/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/48">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Army officials levy a tax on rebel sympathizers to raise money to rebuild Black churches burned down by arsonists]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lt. J.E. Mobray to Brig. Gen. Lockwood recommending taxation of rebel property in order to raise money to rebuild Black churches that were burned in Somerset County. Subsequent order implements recommendation, taxing disloyal and &quot;disaffected&quot; citizens to rebuild burned Black churches. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Worcester &amp; Somerset Counties, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/51">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black nuns in Baltimore petition Black Superintendent of Schools William Howard Day for support for their school and orphanage]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Oblate Sisters of Providence to William H. Day (supt of F Schools) gives a history of the school, which the Black sisters established for the education of Black children. Opened a free school and orphan asylum since the war. Petition for financial assistance. Claim that they don&#039;t show any preference to religious denomination of students.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/22/1867]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/40">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black pastors petition the Secretary of War to partner with the A.M.E. Church]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.W. Wayman, D.A. Payne, John M. Brown, M.F. Stuby, &amp; James Lynch to Edwin Stanton responding to Stanton&#039;s order authorizing the Methodist Episcopal Church to oversee all Southern Methodist Churches. Wayman et al. inform Stanton of the existence of AME church, the strength of its membership and ministers, and the readiness of the AME to assume control of the spiritual direction of Black Southerners. &quot;The aforementioned order virtually excludes us from a vast field of Christian labor among our brethren, whom we have long payed to meet, and organize.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[6/1/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/26">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black residents of Baltimore petition for redress after they are prevented from renting a concert hall to host a lecture by Frederick Douglass]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[B.R. Hawley to Edwin M. Stanton (sec of war) writing that Black residents of Baltimore have been unable to rent either the Maryland Institute Hall or the Templers Hall for a lecture meeting at which the announced speaker was Frederick Douglass. The reason given for the refusal was that Black resdients would ather in the street in front of the hall. Hawley claims discrimination against Black residents of Baltimore and &quot;against the colored nattion.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[5/31/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/47">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta reports on his ejection from a segregated streetcar in Washington D.C.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surgeon Alexander Augusta describes his ejection from a streetcar for being Black. &quot;I attempted to enter the car, and he pulled me out and ejected me from the platform. The consequence was I had to walk the whole distance through rain and mud, and was considerably detained past the hour for my attendance at Court.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/8/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/24">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta writes about the discrimination his wife endured on the train from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.T. Augusta (surgeon, 7th USCT) to Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace (cmdg Middle Department &amp; 8th Army Corps) alleging that the Baltimore &amp; Ohio R.R. charges Black passengers the same fare yet forces them into the front car of the train, which is filled with tobacco smoke and all sorts of people. &quot;It makes no difference how respectable a colored lady may be; how disagreable smoking may be to her; or how ill she might be, the employees about the depot will not permit her to enter another car, and should she by chance get into another and is found there, she is rudely thrust out.&quot; Gives exmample of his wife and another Black woman expelled from their car and forced into the smoking car. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/20/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/7">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black pastor Benjman Howard reports on having been arrested and sold by the state of Maryland for preaching]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:alternative><![CDATA[A-9745]]></dcterms:alternative>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Benjman Howard, apparently intended for D.C. Assistant Commissioner C. H. Howard, reporting that he had been a preacher in Annapolis and bought a house there in 1857. Was arrested in 1862 for preaching and jailed until Feb. 1863 when he was sold away as punishment for 15 years with a mandate to never return to the state of MD. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/27/1866]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Ann Arundel Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/57">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black resident of Baltimore seeks help retrieving property taken by the family of his former enslaver]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Formerly enslaved Black resident of Baltimore L Meads to Gen. Lew Wallace reporting having been turned off of his property by the nephew of his former enslaver and requesting advice on how he might retrieve his property.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/29/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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