Dayhoff: Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, influenced Carroll County
It is fascinating that Luther, who probably never even heard of the American colonies, or ever set foot in Maryland – has ...
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Talbot County’s United States Colored Troops fought with valor and honor
Though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, did not free the enslaved people in Maryland, it allowed African Americans throughout the nation to serve in the Union ...
A look at abolitionist efforts in Prince George’s County — from the stage
Maryland may have been a Union state, but before the Civil War, it certainly had a number of plantations whose owners bought ...
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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: The 550 Talbot Countians who fought for the United States Colored Troops
Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...