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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Formerly enslaved Matilda Johnson petitions the Freedmen&#039;s Bureau for the return of her children and household goods, after which the agency waived her right to her children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Series of complaints around property rights and apprenticeship for Black residents of Anne Arundel County. Of special interest are the two complaints by Matilda Johnson relating to her children and household goods being held illegally by James Boyle. Resolution of the case indicates that while the Freedmen&#039;s Bureau had intervened to have her children returned, Boyle was successful in getting permission to retrieve them under previous apprenticeship proceedings. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/29/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Anne Arundel Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black Baltimore resident Anthony Armstrong applies to raise a Black militia to defend the city]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[7/10/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/7">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black pastor Benjman Howard reports on having been arrested and sold by the state of Maryland for preaching]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:alternative><![CDATA[A-9745]]></dcterms:alternative>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Benjman Howard, apparently intended for D.C. Assistant Commissioner C. H. Howard, reporting that he had been a preacher in Annapolis and bought a house there in 1857. Was arrested in 1862 for preaching and jailed until Feb. 1863 when he was sold away as punishment for 15 years with a mandate to never return to the state of MD. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/27/1866]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Ann Arundel Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/57">
    <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>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free Black Woman Barbara Diggs petitions for the release of her children, who were bound out against her will]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Statement of Barbara Diggs, a free woman of color, whose children &quot;are slaves of Dr. Featherbridge of Talbot Co Md&quot; he &quot;claiming the right of binding them to him.&quot; 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[Talbot County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Free person of color Thomas Brown, apprenticed to a secessoinist, takes refuge in Annapolis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thomas Brown, a free person of color apprenticed to Grafton Hall, a secessionist, seeks protection in Annapolis because he is afraid that Hall will punish him for giving information to Union troops &quot;that had led to the capture of rebel arms.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/15/1862]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[General Edward A. Wild reports on an apparent scheme to defraud Black recruits of a portion of their pay by listing them as deserters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[General Edwd. A. Wild to Col. C.W. Foster (A.A.G.), In the Field, Chapin&#039;s Farm, VA identifying an evident scheme to defraud Black recuits of a portion of their pay by declaring them deserters despite having failed to notify them of their recruitment or afford them proper medical examination. Concludes &quot;these men were virtually impressed, or rather kidnapped. So they declare, themselves.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/12/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Maryland]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/54">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[General Henry H. Lockwood attempts to break up the abusive apprenticeship system on the Eastern Shore, but is countermanded by headquarters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Extract from Samuel B. Lawrence (AAG 8th AC) to Henry H. Lockwood (Comdg. 3rd sep brig) from Special Order No. 112 breaking up the widely abused apprentice system that bound formerly enslaved children to their former enslavers against the wishes of their parents. Includes copy of a telegram suspending that order, which left the apprenticeship system in place, as well as Lockwood&#039;s reply in protest of the decision.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Eastern Shore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[General Joseph Hooker directs his subordinates to send Black men into rebel territory to search for their families and gather military intelligence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Capt. Joseph Dickinson (AAG) to Brig. Gen, Daniel E. Sickles ordering the sending out of all Black Marylanders who will be likely to gather information on the rebel forces on the south side of the Rappahanock. They have families on the other side of the river, and will be willing to encounter almost any peril to secure them. <br />
A letter of the same date permits Mr. Posey, a Maryland enslaver, to enter the camp of the 70th New York to reclaim two of his enslaved workers.<br />
A subsequent telegram in the folder describes Cornelius, an enslaved man, as reliable for supplying information about the rebel forces to the Union army.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/24/1862]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Camp Baker, Charles County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/56">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[General William W Morris acknowledges orders to fire a salute in Baltimore celebrating the end of slavery in Maryland]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bt Brig Genl W W Morris to Major James R Ross (AAAG) acknowledging receipt of orders to fire a salute from Federal Hill in celebration of the free state of Maryland following the passage of the new state constitution abolishing slavery.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/31/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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