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The names included on the antebellum Maryland maps
are men and women who owned property. They most likely
paid a fee to the map-maker to have their names
included. Unfortunately, maps with property owners
listed only exist for thirteen of Maryland's counties.
These maps allow us to place thousands of the more
well-off members of Antebellum Maryland society. As
property owners in antebellum Maryland, many of those
included on the maps were likely to have owned slaves.
When possible, the Maryland State Archives performs
research to connect the names of slaves with their
owners in order to locate enslaved as well as free
residents of Antebellum Maryland. These maps provide
historians and genealogists with a powerful new tool
for research.
R.G Brashears, Owner
Runaway Slave Advertisement
Jane Taylor
(Source: National Intelligencer, 4/24/1840, MSA SC
5507)
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