From Freedom’s Shadow — Student’s Guide to Documents: Overseers & Laborers

From Freedoms Shadow: Documents — Overseers & Laborers

Note the word “Free” written next to “Negro Cesar,” the fourth name from the bottom of this roll. Although it is not clear if he lived in Maryland, a large free black population co-existed among the enslaved in the state at the time this document is dated. Slavery was abolished in Maryland in 1864.

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