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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it's a Mid-Atlantic state. So sick of the outdated Mason Dixon argument. [/quote]

Because Maryland was a slave state? [/quote]

Maryland is literally called “The Free State”, dummy.  :roll:   [b]There were no slaves.[/b] Why do you think it was called The FREE State?

Did you study history at Trump University  :lol: [/quote]

Tell that to Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and my ancestor who were enslaved here in Maryland.

Maryland only abolished slavery in 1864. Before that, the peculiar institution was common in most of the state from tobacco farms, fishing, and forestry on the Eastern shore to construction, stevedores, and iron monger if in Baltimore, to even quarries in Northern and Western Maryland. And of course, domestic labor throughout the state.

Slave-owning Marylanders fought on the side of the Confederacy and Lincoln struggled to keep Maryland in the Union so that DC was not surrounded by the enemy. Frederick, MD actually cheered the arrival of Confederate troops.[/quote]

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