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Douglass’ Reply To A. C. C. Thompson’S ‘Letter From Frederick Douglass,’ As Reprinted In The Anti-Slavery Bugle: A Critical Edition Of Both Letters, With A Summary Of Maryland’S Fugitive Slave Laws, Kayla Hardy-Butler
Nineteenth-Century Ohio Literature
Kayla Hardy-Butler presents a famous letter by Frederick Douglass, as it was published in Ohio, with the letter that prompted it. This edition also includes a summary of Maryland slave statutes from the time to better explain the day-to-day experience of slavery debated in this correspondence.
Adoption Of English Law In Maryland, Garrett Power
Adoption Of English Law In Maryland, Garrett Power
Legal History Publications
It served as an axiom of Maryland’s constitutional history that settlers carried with them the “rights of Englishmen” when they crossed the Atlantic. In 1642 the Assembly of Maryland Freemen declared Maryland’s provincial judges were to follows the law of England. Maryland’s 1776 Declaration of Independence left a legal lacuna--- what were to be the laws and public institutions of this newly created sovereign entity? This paper considers the manner in which the sovereign state of Maryland filled the void.
The Gentleman From Hagerstown: How Maryland Jews Won The Right To Vote, Kenneth Lasson
The Gentleman From Hagerstown: How Maryland Jews Won The Right To Vote, Kenneth Lasson
All Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses the early history of Maryland in the context of religious discrimination, specifically in reference to discrimination against those of the Jewish faith, even though the state "was founded as a haven of religious liberty and beacon of toleration." It also highlights a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Thomas Kennedy, a Christian, as being the leader of the movement to ultimately correct this injustice. Part of the problem were clauses in the state's constitution requiring officeholders to be Christians. Kennedy lost his seat in the House, but didn't give up the battle. Ha had tried several …
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
Reviews the environment and history of the 1960 Baltimore sit-in case that eventually made its way to the United States Supreme Court.
Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds
Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
Reviews the life and contributions of Maryland lawyer and scholar Luther Martin (1748-1826).
Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery And Westminster Presbyterian Church: A Guide To The Markers And Burials In Westminster Cemetery, 1775-1943, Mary Ellen Hayward, R. Kent Lancaster
Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery And Westminster Presbyterian Church: A Guide To The Markers And Burials In Westminster Cemetery, 1775-1943, Mary Ellen Hayward, R. Kent Lancaster
Legal History Publications
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