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Indenture Rescinded (July 19th, 1865)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: About a week ago the Orphans’ Court rescinded an order that apprenticed three negro children to Joseph A. Fleming of Walkersville. In 1862 their mother left her owner for Pennsylvania in fear of the Confederate army. After learning of the abolishment of slavery, she returned to claim her children, petitioning the court that they had been bound to Fleming without her knowledge or consent. Milton G. Urner was her counsel.
Full DetailsConvention of the School Commissioners of Maryland (August 30th, 1865)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: A Convention of the School Commissioners of Maryland met in Baltimore for two days beginning August 23 (1865). The purpose of the convention was to exchange views regarding the school law passed by the legislature. A committee of five was appointed to suggest changes to the law to the next legislature. The issues of concern included the education of those in prisons and the “colored class,” and salaries of commissioners and teachers, funding, school houses and compulsory attendance.
Full DetailsTampering with the Mails (August 30th, 1865)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: According to the Middletown Register, Daniel V. Miller, postmaster at Adamsville, was arrested for opening a letter of a “colored soldier” and taking $15.00 enclosed within.
Full DetailsThe Colored People's Celebration (August 30th, 1865)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: More than 3000 residents celebrated the abolition of slavery within the state of Maryland; the crowd, which included both African Americans and whites, was addressed by several prominent orators, including Rev. Henry Highland Grant.
Full DetailsBounties for Slaves (September 15th, 1865)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: Notice to slave owners re filing claims for compensation for slaves who enlisted or were drafted
Full DetailsNegro Suffrage (October 11th, 1865)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Editorial about the Copperhead view of African Americans' suffrage rights. The Examiner says that at this point, practically no one in Maryland favors Negro suffrage. Connecticut has recently voted against it. The Copperheads are making Negro suffrage an issue in this election, but it should not be considered. It cannot be considered a political issue in the North because the people of the North don't have the power to effect that suffrage. "The people of the South alone must determine it, and when negro suffrage becomes a political necessity, as emancipation became a military necessity, it will then be time to agitate it."
Full DetailsA Diabolical Act (October 13th, 1865)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: A Negro man attached to the 6th US Cavalry, stationed near Frederick, raped an 11-year-old girl, daughter of Theodore Lowe, and is now in jail awaiting trial.
Full DetailsDeath from Glanders (November 17th, 1865)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: African-American man of Buckeystown Districtdied from glanders, which he caught from an infected horse
Full Details$50 Reward (November 22nd, 1865)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Notice: Wm. H. Best offers a $50.00 reward for the return of Louis Robison, a fourteen-year-old negro boy apprenticed to him until age twenty-one. The boy ran away on October 29 (1865) from Best’s residence three miles south of Frederick on the Buckeystown road.
Full DetailsProceedings of Court (November 30th, 1865)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Augustus Butler, an African American, was found not guilty for theft of a dog chain and curry comb
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