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The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia , and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies .
Maryland colonists turned to importing indentured and enslaved Africans to satisfy the labor demand. By the 18th century, Maryland had developed into a plantation colony and slave society, requiring extensive numbers of field hands for the labor-intensive commodity crop of tobacco. In 1700, the province had a population of about 25,000, and by ...
1838 Jesuit slave sale. On June 19, 1838, the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus agreed to sell 272 slaves to two Louisiana planters, Henry Johnson and Jesse Batey, for $115,000 (equivalent to approximately $3.25 million in 2023). This sale was the culmination of a contentious and long-running debate among the Maryland Jesuits over ...
Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. In the US, reparations for slavery have been both given by legal ruling in court and/or given voluntarily (without court rulings) by ...
1871: Education [Statute] Children of African descent would be provided separate schools. 1897: Voting rights [Statute] Excluded "any person living on an Indian or military reservation" from residency, unless that person had acquired a residence in a county of the state and is in the employment of the government while living on a reservation.
The pre-American Civil Warpractice of kidnapping into slavery in the United Statesoccurred in both free and slave states, and both fugitive slavesand free negroeswere transported to slave markets and sold, often multiple times. There were also rewards for the return of fugitives. Three types of kidnapping methods were employed: physical ...
The state, on July 1, enacted new rules to its Child Labor Law, requiring adults to pay children under the age of 16 if those minors appear in at least 30% of their social media content over a 30 ...
Child-selling is the practice of selling children, usually by parents, legal guardians, or subsequent custodians, including adoption agencies, orphanages and Mother and Baby Homes. Where the subsequent relationship with the child is essentially non-exploitative, it is usually the case that purpose of child-selling was to permit adoption .