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    <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/50">
    <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/49">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Commander of a Black refugee camp in Washington, D.C., refuses to assign Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta to duty]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[James J. Ferree refuses to assign Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta to duty at camp in Washington D.C. as required in Special Order 109.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[5/16/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></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/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/46">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta passes the Army medical exam against the wishes of white board members]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Series of letters regarding Alexander Augusta&#039;s desire to serve as a Surgeon in what would become the 7th USCI. Augusta initially writes Lincoln and Stanton requesting an appointment from Toronto and eventually travels to D.C. to sit for the officer&#039;s exam over the objections of white officers and physicians. Contains letters from Augusta, Surg. W. Moss, and M. Clymer as well as relevant endorsements.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/7/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/44">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free person of color Thomas Brown, apprenticed to a secessoinist, takes refuge in Annapolis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thomas Brown, a free person of color apprenticed to Grafton Hall, a secessionist, seeks protection in Annapolis because he is afraid that Hall will punish him for giving information to Union troops &quot;that had led to the capture of revel arms.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/15/1862]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County, 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/42">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Postmaster at New Town reporting on the burning of Black churches and attacks on Black residents and their property]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[James Murray (postmaster, New Town MD) to Maj. Gen. Wallace reporting on the burning of the Black M.E. Church in Worchester County. Another Black chuirch burned in Somerset Co. See C-4141 for another letter from Murray. 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[Somerset &amp; Worchester counties, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/41">
    <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>
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