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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black resident of Baltimore seeks help retrieving property taken by the family of his former enslaver]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Formerly enslaved Black resident of Baltimore L Meads to Gen. Lew Wallace reporting having been turned off of his property by the nephew of his former enslaver and requesting advice on how he might retrieve his property.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/29/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/51">
    <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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/40">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black pastors petition the Secretary of War to partner with the A.M.E. Church]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.W. Wayman, D.A. Payne, John M. Brown, M.F. Stuby, &amp; James Lynch to Edwin Stanton responding to Stanton&#039;s order authorizing the Methodist Episcopal Church to oversee all Southern Methodist Churches. Wayman et al. inform Stanton of the existence of AME church, the strength of its membership and ministers, and the readiness of the AME to assume control of the spiritual direction of Black Southerners. &quot;The aforementioned order virtually excludes us from a vast field of Christian labor among our brethren, whom we have long payed to meet, and organize.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[6/1/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/39">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[White trustees of a Black church refuse to allow them to employ a Black pastor]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Several documents beginning with deposition of David Lucket, complaining that white trustees of church at Oxon Hill, MD prevent Black parishioners from employing a Black minister. Require a white one. The underlying reason for this requirement by white trustees, subsequent investigation shows, is the &quot;Nat Tyler&quot; insurrection of 1852.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/21/1866]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Oxen Hill, Prince George&#039;s County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.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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