Common
Ground Connected Heritage:
Safeguarding
the Material Culture
of
Sotterley’s People
Thursday, November 1st
Thursday, November 1st
Beginning at 4:00
p.m.
On
Thursday, November 1st, Historic Sotterley continues the Common
Ground Connected Heritage Project: Safeguarding the Material Culture of
Sotterley’s People, funded by Maryland Humanities. The public is invited for a
special evening of tours, presentation, and honest dialogue about the changing
the narrative.
4:00
p.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Two tours of the 1703 Manor House & original 1830’s Slave Cabin will be
offered. Limit: 20 persons per tour.
7:00
p.m.
Speaker Series #7: Joe McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project “Sleeping in Slave
Dwellings and Changing the Narrative.”
8:00
p.m.
Fireside Chat with Joe McGill.
Please call
301-373-2280 for reservations for tours and for the Speaker Series.
FREE to the
public, but space is limited.
at
Sotterley for 11 years running
and
to Maryland Humanities for supporting this event.
The
significance of this date: In October 1864, the Union
controlled government of Maryland ratified the third of four state
constitutions. It abolished slavery in Maryland only with the help of votes
from returning Union soldiers. It failed to franchise anyone except white males
who pledged loyalty to the Union. Maryland was a border state, along with
Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri, which meant they did not secede from the
Union but kept slavery. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to
Union slave states. On November 1, 1864, 154 years ago, slavery
officially ended in Maryland. Many slave owners petitioned the government
for compensation for their lost property years after the war ended. With
government power shifting to Democratic southern sympathizers, the 1864
constitution was replaced by the present constitution of 1867. Racial
discriminatory laws and social practices continued in Maryland. St.
Mary’s County, Maryland schools were desegregated in 1968.
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