Maryland is a very odd state in that it really is a mix of south and north. You've got the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland where everybody talks like a Faulkner novel and then you got Baltimore which is a lot more Philly than Charleston.
Maryland was the first big slave state, but slavery had declined on its own, as tobacco declined in importance as a crop. By the time of the civil war, the number of freed blacks in MD greatly outnumbered the slave population which made the future of the institution very tenuous by that point anyway.
> > If you're only going to talk symbolism and not the actual line (roughly > the southern border of Pennsylvania), San Francisco is below it (by at > least two degrees). The importance of it comes from the Missouri > Compromise, and I think it's significant that Maryland, true to its > geography, didn't abolish slavery until near the end of the Civil War > (~October 1864), long after the Emancipation Proclaimation.> > /jordan > > ___________________________________> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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