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    <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/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://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/35">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Case of white women hissing at Black troops in Baltimore]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Lt. Col. John Woolley (prov. Mar.) to Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace (com. Middle dept) reporting that some ladies were hissing at the passing of colored troops on Exeter Street. They endeavored to make a dog bark at the troops to &quot;show further their sentiments.&quot; Woolley would like to take some action (a fine) so that &quot;such people feel that they cannot sneer and hiss at their government or its troops without being brought to account for it.&quot; Includes statements of witnesses to the incident.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[4/17/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.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://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/33">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[White officers discuss how to handle a Black New York soldier who enlisted in a white unit stationed at Fort McHenry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William Lee (capt NY vols) to Adj of NY Vols writing that he received a group of 46 men in which there was a Black man, George Tankard of NY. Lee states that he has put Tankard to work in the kitchen, and he feels that it would be unsafe to drill or house the Black soldier with the white ones. Asks that the man be moved immediately to USCT—request granted.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[9/20/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Fort McHenry, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/31">
    <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://www.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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/29">
    <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://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/28">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Marylander reveals the location of hidden rebel arms on the property of a future Maryland state senator]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Brig. Gen. H.H. Lockwood to Lt. Col. Lawrence (AAG) reporting that in the summer of 1861 he obtained information from a Black Marylander that Mr. [William B.] Stevenson had a quantity of guns stored in his barn. Mr. Stevenson is now the senator-elect from Harford Co, MD.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/21/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Havre de Grace, Harford County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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