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Hands Off Slavery in The Border States
08-10-2012, 05:40 PM
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RE: Hands Off Slavery in The Border States
I need to make one clarification to the above statement: Maryland and the other border states were allowed to keep their slaves despite the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Slavery in Maryland was abolished by a new state constitution that went into effect on November 1, 1864 -- just about the time that John Wilkes Booth arrived in Charles County...
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