Introduction

Maryland Law
   Colonial Law
    State Law
   
Relations with Other States
               Petitions of the General Assembly
               Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
               Gorsuch Treason Trials

Federal Laws Regarding Slavery
     The Declaration of Independence
     Northwest Territories      
     The Constitution
     The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
     Slave Trade
     The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
     Slaves, Freedmen, and the Law
     Dred Scott  v.  Sandford

Free People of Colour Before the End of Slavery

Organizations Against Slavery
     The American Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery,
and the Relief of Free
          Negroes and Others,  Unlawfully Held in  Bondage
      The Baltimore Society for the Protection of Free People of
Color
       Prince Georges County and the Underground Railroad
            Henry
            Tom  Matthews
            William Brown
            Benjamin Ducket
            Jim Belle
            Nace Shaw
            Adam Smith
            Joseph Thomas and William Oliver
      The Maryland Colonization Society
       Friends' Association in Aid of Freedmen
       Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational
Improvement of the Colored
             People
       Freedmen's Bureau

Slavery in Prince George's County
        Colonial Slavery
              Quando
               Joice
               Daphne
               Others
               Colonial Slave Work
               Colonial Trials and Legal Proceedings
               Colonial Slave Resistance
                Poplar Neck and the Slave Consipiracy of 1739
          The Revolutionary War Period
          Growth of Slavery in the Post Revolutionary War Eara
                Slave Patrols
                 Religious Restrictions
                 Other  Laws
                 Economic  Valuation
                 Insurrection of 1845
                 Public Opinion
                 Slave Accounts
                         Dennis Simms
                          Lewis Chambers
                          Hensin Williams
                          William "Mac" Pickney

Epilogue:  Freedom

           The Civil War and Prince Georgians
           The Election of 1863
           The Constitutional  Convention
           The Aftermath  
A History of Slavery in Prince Georges
County, Maryland