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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Governor Bradford complains to Lincoln that Black Marylanders have been unjustly freed from jail by Black soldiers]]></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 (published) 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/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/38">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kent County officials arrest army recruiting officers for enlisting enslaved men against the wishes of their enslavers]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[John Frazier (pro mar) to H.W. Hoffman reporting that judges in Kent have ordered the arrest of several citizens, including the Deputy Pro. Mars. for alleged interference with the enlistment of Black soldiers. Frazier states that “This is done to effect the election and secure, if possible, the election of the Copper Head Ticket. Frazier thinks that the judges should be arrested and held until after the election. According to Frazier, the judges are “trying to make the impression that the enlistment of slaves was against the law and without authority thereby securing for the Maffit ticket the votes of all who have lost Negroes...If the arrest are made we can carry the county for the ’Straight-on-Ticket.&#039;&quot;<br />
Included with this letter are four Transcripts of Record involving those citizens arrested. The defendents were accused of enticing slaves away from their lawful owners.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/23/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kent County, 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/1">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lincoln expresses concern over the impact of Black military recruiters on white public opinion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[October 21, 1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Eastern Shore, Maryland]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/67">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Officers collect evidence that the commander of a white Maryland regiment interfered with Black enlistment]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Service record of Col. James Wallace, 1st E.S. Md. Vol. Inf., containing testimony regarding the interference by Wallace of Black recruitment in Maryland.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/5/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Salsbury, 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/60">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/52">
    <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>
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