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"Thomas Garrett was an American abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War. For his fight against slavery, he was subject to threats, harassment and assaults. A $10,000 bounty was established for his capture, He was arrested and convicted in the Hawkins case. He helped more than 2,500 African Americans escape slavery."
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"Nat Turner was an enslaved African-American preacher who organized and led the four-day rebellion of enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831."
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"Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. Was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory[4] and incisive antislavery writings."
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1830 - 1868
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"Black residents in Baltimore resisted. They pushed back against the publicly funded Maryland Colonization Society, a group that sought to transport free Black Marylanders to west Africa; petitioned Baltimore City to establish public schools for Black students; and protested the exclusion and discrimination experienced by Black workers."
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His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. Through August 21, 1831 – August 23, 1831 -
Nat Turner’s started the rebellion against whites and it was very violet and many whites died it was about 50 after the fight a man by the name of Henry Brawner, Who was a slaveholder had a committee that sent free African Americans to Liberia and make it harder for enslave people to escape. And for free black in Maryland they just gave them less laws to protect them.
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"A labor leader and mason, was born in Baltimore. He was the son of free parents but grew up in a slave state. Myers received his early education from a private day school of a local clergyman, Rev. John Fortie.At age sixteen, he became an apprentice to James Jackson, a prominent black Baltimore ship caulker. Four years later Myers was supervising the caulking of clipper ships operating out of Baltimore."
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Where Thomas Garrett was an abolitionists an help to assist slave who escape to baltimore.
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Enslaved and free Black workers were key to this early growth. Black men and women who built and repaired ships in Fell’s Point, washed laundry in alley house courtyards near the harbor, dug clay for bricks from pits in South Baltimore, cared for other people’s children in Mount Vernon mansions, and swept streets in the Western Precincts around today’s Lexington Market.
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Frederick Douglass became an abolitionist when someone ask him to come to an antislavery convention after that he was then asked to explain his experience as an enslaved person. The month and day he join is unknown but the year is.
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"The Act required that all local and state governments and deputized
individuals in northern states fully cooperate with slaveholders seeking to re-enslave individuals who had escaped bondage in states where slavery remained legal." Which cause people that were trying to find slaves that ran away to just get any black women or man or child they saw when it happen they said a slave ran away. -
By 1850, Black property owners made up just 0.4% of the city's free Black population and 0.6% of the city's total population. Evidently, even this small group must have been seen by some white Marylanders as a threat—given the failed attempt in the state legislature to pass a law prohibiting free Black residents from buying real estate or leasing a property for more than a year. In 1856, there were only 236 Black property owners in the city
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"1854 Dred Scott decision, when Maryland native and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and six other justices ruled that “the enslaved African race” and free people of color could make no claim to freedom or citizenship under the US Constitution." During this Frederick Douglass joined thousands of other Americans, including Black Baltimoreans, joined risking their lives for freedom and the freedom of enslaved African Americans.
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"White Union supporters drafted a new constitution in 1864 that proposed to abolish slavery and disenfranchise Marylanders who fought for the “so-called ‘Confederate States of America,’” or gave “any aid, comfort, countenance or support to those engaged in armed hostility to the United States."
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"Hundreds of free Black people in Baltimore supported the Union army by working on fortifications and hospitals around the edges of the city. Over 8,000 enslaved Marylanders enlisted in the US Colored Troops between the spring of 1863 and the end of the war two years later. "
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"Aspiring Black teachers could enroll for training at the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People, established on Courtland Street near Saratoga Street in 1865, or at the Centenary Biblical Institute, established at Sharp Street Church in 1867.3 Increased access to education among Black residents also created new demands for skilled employment."
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Isaac Myers help many African Americans get jobs after being kick out there old one because when the civil war ended the white men ended up taking their job so Isaac Myers help develop a company caulker with Frederick Douglass. And it was unknown when he actually started it. But after that he became president of that said company. It is also unknown what month and day he became president of the company.
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It's tied to Baltimore. 1830-1885
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How it has influenced others is it gave them jobs more rights as people , help them escape slavery that may have been our ancestors.
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"In response to Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Virginia (1831), where over 50 White people were killed, the Maryland state legislature created a committee led Brawner’s committee developed a proposal to expand funding for colonization (to send free African Americans to Liberia), to restrict manumission or the freeing of enslaved people, and to reduce the rights of free Black Marylanders.2."
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Why this topic is important to others , and to me is because many important people back then like for example Nat Turner who rebelled against whites so his fellow blacks could run and be free from such disgusting treatment and conditions which shows that he and many others tried to fight in order to become free and to free other slaves that were there.