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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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