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    <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>
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