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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[White Baltimore resident Sarah Alnutt petitions the military for help returning a Black child taken from her residence by family members]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[White Baltimore resident Sarah Alnutt to Gen. Lew Wallace asking for help returning Black child Dolly Parran, who was apparently taken from her residence by distant relations. Includes a letter from the Baltimore police, who investigated the incident.]]></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/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>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[White officials in Queen Anne&#039;s County challenge the recruitment of free people of color as temporary slaves]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William T. Chamgbers to Col. William Birney reporting arrest of Col. J.P. Creager for recruiting among free people of color on the grounds that &quot;when a free colored man hires himself for a year, or short period of time, he is a slave for the length of time he hires himself, and that I have no right to recruit him, though it may be his desire to volunteer.&quot; Notes that John Singer, a free person of color, was arrested for enlisting and thus violating his contract &quot;without reasonable and proper cause.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[8/22/1863]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Centreville, Queen Anne&#039;s Co, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <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>
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