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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>
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