Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground : Maryland During the Nineteenth Century,9780300040326

Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground : Maryland During the Nineteenth Century

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780300040326
ISBN10: 0300040326
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1987-09-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks

Table of Contents

List of Tables
ix
Introduction xi
Two Marylands: 1850
1(22)
Slave and Free on the Middle Ground
23(17)
Baltimore and the Problem of Slavery in Cities
40(23)
Conscript Slaves: The Problem of Free Blacks in a Dual System
63(27)
``The Devlish Nigger Difficulty'': Slavery and the Civil War
90(41)
In Lieu of Reconstruction
131(36)
The New Order in the Countryside
167(27)
Epilogue: From Country to City 194(13)
Appendix: Problems in the Manuscript Agricultural Census 207(2)
Notes 209(50)
Index 259

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