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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maryland Governor Augustus Bradford complains to Lincoln about the liberation of enslaved prisoners from jail in Prince George&#039;s County]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.W. Bradford to Lincoln complains that a troop of colored soldiers committed an outrage in Prince Georges County by freeing prisoners from the county jail. Bradford asks Lincoln to have those guilty of this outraged punished and orders issued to prevent a recurrence. Ensclosed letter relates that Black troops under the command of Lt. Perkins released the prisoners from the county jail. BiIt concludes his letter by stating: ’’Your excellency will not fail to observe that the practical working of this affair is to invite the Negroes to the perpetration of any crime and to offer practical protection and indemnity to them.”]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/16/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Prince George&#039;s 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>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Report that free Black Marylanders were held in jail to compel them to enlist in the Army]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lt. M. Karney (cmdg post at Newton) to Lt. James C. Mullikin reporting on the conditions of the jail in Princess Ann, where several Black prisoners are held, apparently without charges. Some appear to have been enslaved and at least one discharged from the Army, flogged by the man who enlisted him. &quot;There are four others who are confined to get their consent to enter the army.&quot; ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/8/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Princess Ann, Somerset Co., MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rev. Adam Wallace reports on the progress of rebuilding Black churches burned by white Marylanders]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rev. Adam Wallace (late Presiding Elder of Methodist Church, Dist of Eastern Shore of MD) to Brig. Gen. John Kenly, reporting that the Black churches in Somerset Co, MD &quot;are in a fair way of being speedily rebuilt.&quot; They had been destroyed by fire late in 1864 (John Reddish was arrested as the alleged arsonist). Numerous letters and endorsements included in the file deal with the arrest of Reddish, the prgress of rebuilding the churches, and the process by which the army collected funds for rebuilding them from rebel sympathizers.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[7/5/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Somerset County, 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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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Several surgeons of Black regiments write to Lincoln complaining about having to serve under a Black officer, Surgeon Alexander Augusta]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[J.B. McPherson et. al. to Lincoln protesting the assignment of Surgeon Alexander Augusta. Claim their commitment to &quot;bettering&quot; Black Americans but assert that it is beneath their dignity to serve with him as their superior officer. A subsequent letter from one of them, Asst. Surgeon Joel Morse of the 7th USCT, implores Senator John Sherman &quot;to right this wrong, which to my mind is grave, unjust, and humiliating.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Camp Stanton, Bryantown, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/30">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The deputy provost marshal for Kent County reports that local officials used state indenture laws to facilitate the theft of Black children by former enslavers]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bartus Trew (Deputy Prov. Marshal for Kent Co.) to Major Este informing Este that over one hundred free Black children have been bound out by the county Orphan’s Court without the consent of their parents. Trew reports receiving numerous complaints from parents. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/15/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Chestertown, Kent Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Theresa Duffin reports that her former enslaver beat her after she argued with his wife and that they refuse to return her property]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Affidavit of Theresa Duffin reporting that she had a run-in with her enslaver&#039;s wife in 1863 for which he severely beat her; she complained to the authorities &amp; they promptly lodged her in jail; the enslaver got her out &amp; told her that if she didn&#039;t wish to return to his place she must leave MD; she went to Georgetown; in fall 1864 she returned to the former enslaver&#039;s place to get her children, which he agreed to permit, but he refused to let her carry away some $125 worth of personal effects (interesting list of household furnishings &amp; clothing); she complains about the property, saying that the former master threatened to kill her if she ever returned to his place. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two escaped Black Marylanders reveal hidden rebel weapons cache to the army]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lt D. C. Clark to Capt Chas Corbit enclosing two affidavits from formerly enslaved Black Marylanders revealing the location of a hidden cache of rebel weapons as well as the details of their escape to join the Union Army.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/11/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Anne Arundel &amp; Calvert Counties, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/27">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Union officer orders local officials in Havre de Grace  to permit Frederick Douglass to give a lecture there]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Brig. Gen. H.H. Lockwood to Lt. Col. Lawrence (AAAG) opposing intention of town authorities of Havre de  Grace to prevent Frederick Douglass from speaking there. Says Douglass&#039;s speeches are sensible and would do much good.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/28/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Havre de Grace, Harford Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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