How many Blacks were among the first settlers of what is now the state of Maryland?
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None they came as slaves.
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The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts was organized in March, 1863 at Camp Meigs, Readville, Massachusetts by Robert Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family. Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth in February 1863 by Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew.\n\nAs one of the first black units organized in the northernstates, the Fifty-fourth was the object of great interest and curiosity, and its performance would be considered an important indication of the possibilities surrounding the use of blacks in combat. The regiment was composed primarily of free blacks from throughout the north, particularly Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Amongst its recruits were Lewis N. Douglass and Charles Douglass, sons of the famous ex-slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. \n\nThe movie Glory was a very good representation of this.
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In Maryland:\n\nFounding of the town of Springfield\n    [5F02] As early as 1649, the Maryland town of Sprynge-Fielde was inhabited by obvious ancestors of the people of Springfield, the Flanders and the Simpsons.\n\n    [3F13] In 1796, a fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the bible. Their destination, New Sodom. [4F03] Marge says these pioneers were circus freaks.\n\n        * Jebediah: "People, our search is over. On this site we shall build a new town, where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "yes, and marry our cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "What are you talking about Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?"\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "Cause they're so attractive. I thought that was the whole point of this journey."\n        * Jebediah: "Absolutely not."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "I tell you I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "Well then, we'll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm?" \n\n    [2F22] The town of Springfield was born on that day. And to mark that sweet moment, our people planted this lemon tree. Lemons being the sweetest fruit available at the time. [4F15] In 1797, the town charter was created;\n\n        * [9F10] "...as chief constable, ye shall receive one pig every month and two comely lasses of virtue true."
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The Mason-Dixon Line separates the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The line was surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767 to settle land claims not only for Maryland and Pennsylvania, but also Maryland and Deleware. The term Mason-Dixon Line has come to symbolize cultural differnences in the US since the early 1800's.
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Question 1: The 13 colonial governments took a variety of forms. By 1775, eight of the original colonies had royal governors, who were appointed by the king. Three- Maryland, Pennsylvania, & Delaware were under proprietors who themselves chose the governors. And two- Connecticut and Rhonde Island elected their own governors under self-governoring charters. Practically every colony utilized a two-house legislative body. The upper bosy,or council was normally appointed by the crown in the royal colonies. The lower house, as the popular branch was elected by the people, or rather those who owned enough property to qualify as voters.  (I will get back with you on the other answers)
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For one:\n\nAs an adult, Bowie went into the Caribbean slave smuggling business with his brothers, earning a reputation as a deadly knife fighter among the denizens of the lower Mississippi River. By the late 1820s, he began speculating in land backed by financial partners in Natchez.
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Maryland is a southern state; it lies below the Mason Dixson line. That's the fact.
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For those who said no, do you know that for sure?  I found this quote in an article:\n\nHow many Americans are aware that in New Orleans over 3,000 freed slaves owned slaves? The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves. \n\nI think the topic needs more research.\n\nHere's another article:\n\nhttp://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a899fdb32fd.htm\n\nIn a society molded by highly skewed and agenda-selective presentations of history, the tightest censorship involves the fact that large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.\nThe census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves (1). Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves).\n\nIn the rare instances when the ownership of slaves by free Negroes is acknowledged in the history books, justification centers on the claim that black slave masters were simply individuals who purchased the freedom of a spouse or child from a white slaveholder and had been unable to legally manumit them. Although this did indeed happen at times, it is a misrepresentation of the majority of instances, one which is debunked by records of the period on blacks who owned slaves. These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; eight owning 30 or more (2).\n\nAccording to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.\n\nTo return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.\n\nThe majority of slaveholders, white and black, owned only one to five slaves. More often than not, and contrary to a century and a half of bullwhips-on-tortured-backs propaganda, black and white masters worked and ate alongside their charges; be it in house, field or workshop. The few individuals who owned 50 or more slaves were confined to the top one percent, and have been defined as slave magnates.\n\nIn 1860 there were at least six Negroes in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves The largest number, 152 slaves, were owned by the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation. Another Negro slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000 (3). That year, the mean wealth of southern white men was $3,978 (4).\n\nIn Charleston, South Carolina in 1860 125 free Negroes owned slaves; six of them owning 10 or more. Of the $1.5 million in taxable property owned by free Negroes in Charleston, more than $300,000 represented slave holdings (5). In North Carolina 69 free Negroes were slave owners (6).\n\nIn 1860 William Ellison was South Carolina's largest Negro slaveowner. In Black Masters. A Free Family of Color in the Old South, authors Michael P. Johnson
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Check out this web site:\n\nwww.inmotionaame.org\n\nIt is a history of African American migrations.
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First is ...Maryland to Lord Baltimore in 1632\n\nSecond is....Carolina, given to a consortium of eight proprietors in 1670.\n\nThird....Georgia, granted in 1732 to a group of British philanthropists.
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The Mason Dixon line is up by Baltimore.  People in the deep south (mississippi, New Orleans, Alabama, etc) do not consider us Southerners and I live in Southern Maryland.  I consider where I live to be the south because of some of the trees we can grow here.
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I'm having trouble finding that exact information. This might help, though: \n\nThe first known Black college graduate was in 1816, at the University of Vermont. This is from a book called "Black Firsts", which is in the Cleveland Public Library. So your person definately graduated after 1816. \n\nFrom what I can tell about the southern US, the first blacks were allowed into higher education at either Howard University, Morehouse College, or the Fisk School. The Fisk School was established in 1866, in Nashville. In 1867, it was incorporated as Fisk University, and was then able to grant university degrees. Howard University was founded in 1867, in Washington, D.C. Morehouse was founded in 1867 in Augusta, Georgia (it was first named the Augusta Institute). \n\nSo, the first black college student in the south likely entered the Fisk School, which later became Fisk University. But since it wasn't actually a degree-granting university until 1867, you could also argue that the first person may have come from Howard or Morehouse. \n\nYou may be able to find more if you check their websites. \n\nI've also included an interesting link for you, below:
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In the early years, 1 in 4 were black.
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What is mid-population? The estimated population of Montgomery Maryland in July, 2004 is 921,690. The 2000 census population was 873,341.
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It depended in what region of the US they were enslaved in (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_United_States for more information).\n\nI hope this helps you!!!
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The first black governor was P.B.S. Pinchback, the governor of Lousiana from December 9, 1872 until January 13, 1873. He only lasted a month because he allegedly "stole" the governor seat from someone else.\n\nAs for the first *elected* black governor of a U.S. state, that'd be Douglas Wilder. He was the governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. \n\nOther than that, I don't believe there have been any others. There have been a handful serving as Lieutenant Governor, though.\n\nIt seems as though Deval Patrick may win the Massachusetts gubernatorial election on the 7th of this month, though. Which would make him a present-day black governor.
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your funny-your trying to put guilt by your reverse question-and only 10% of americans here today have relatives back to slavery days -they came from europe and elsewhere since the early 1900's but many run with that chip on their shoulder both colors-let Jesus set you free -david in Jesus amazing grace that saved a wretch like me  :D