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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Amid widespread abuses of the apprenticeship system to bind formerly enslaved children, Governor Bradford complains about oversight efforts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[James C. Mullikin (ADC) to H.H. Lockwood (3d sep brig) notifying him on abuses of apprenticeship system and suggesting the implementation of martial law in relevant counties on the Eastern Shore. Followed by A.W. Bradford (Gov of MD) to Gen. Lew Wallace (comdg Middle Dept) complaining of Wallace&#039;s General Order No. 112, which provided protections for formerly enslaved people from the apprenticeship system under which formerly enslaved children were widely bound to their former enslavers on the Eastern Shore. Under antebellum Maryland law, Bradford argued, &quot;provision is made for binding out the minor children of free persons of color who have not the means or are unwilling themselves to take care of their offspring.&quot; This practice of apprenticeship, Bradford claimed, grew from the &quot;necessity of taking care of an infant class thus suddenly deprived of the support to which they had been accustomed.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/9/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Eastern Shore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/60">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Report that free Black Marylanders were held in jail to compel them to enlist in the Army]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lt. M. Karney (cmdg post at Newton) to Lt. James C. Mullikin reporting on the conditions of the jail in Princess Ann, where several Black prisoners are held, apparently without charges. Some appear to have been enslaved and at least one discharged from the Army, flogged by the man who enlisted him. &quot;There are four others who are confined to get their consent to enter the army.&quot; ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/8/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Princess Ann, Somerset Co., MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/59">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne (AAPMG for MD &amp; DE) directing him to send the deputy pro mar at Salsbury &quot;to compel Joshua W Phillips, in Barren Creek District Somerset Co, to deliver to Sarah Parsons (colored) all her children now withheld from her by said Phillips.&quot; If Phillips refused, he was to be arrested and sent to Baltimore.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/2/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Somerset County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/58">
    <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/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>
</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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    <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/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[Governor Bradford complains to Lincoln that Black Marylanders have been unjustly freed from jail by Black soldiers]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.W. Bradford to Lincoln complains that a troop of colored soldiers committed an outrage in Prince Georges County by freeing prisoners from the county jail. Bradford asks Lincoln to have those guilty of this outraged punished and orders issued to prevent a recurrence. Ensclosed letter (published) relates that Black troops under the command of Lt. Perkins released the prisoners from the county jail. BiIt concludes his letter by stating: ’’Your excellency will not fail to observe that the practical working of this affair is to invite the Negroes to the perpetration of any crime and to offer practical protection and indemnity to them.”]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/16/1864]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Prince George&#039;s County, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <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>
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