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The DELMARVA Area......



Hotbed of Slavery, etc etc etc

1619
Maryland Segregation Policy
Recommended that blacks be socially excluded

1642
Virginia Fugitive Law
Authorized branding of an "R" in the face of runaway slaves

1691
Virginia Marriage Law
Prescribed banishment for any white woman marrying a black.

1705
Virginia Public Office Law
Prohibited blacks from holding or assuming any public office

1710
Virginia enacted Meritorious Manumission
Rewarded slaves with freedom for informing on other slaves

1723
Virginia Anti-Assembly Law
Impeded blacks from meeting or having a sense of community

1723
Virginia Weapons Law
Forbade blacks from keeping weapons

1775
Virginia Runaway Law
Allowed sale or execution of slaves attempting to flee

1793
Virginia Migration Law
Forbade free blacks from entering the State

1813
Virginia Poll Tax
Exacted a $1.50 tax on blacks who were forbidden to vote

1815
Virginia Poll Tax
Required free blacks to pay a $2.50 tax so whites could vote

1838
Virginia School of Law
Forbade blacks who had gone North to school to return

1842
Maryland Information Law
Felonied blacks demanding or receiving abolition newspapers

1844
Maryland Color Tax
Placed a tax on all employed black artisans

1848
Virginia Incitement Law
Provided death penalty for advising slaves to rebel

1853
Virginia Poll Tax Law
Levied tax on all free black males 21-to-55 years old

1856
Virginia Drug Law
Forbade selling poisonous drugs to blacks

1858
Maryland Recreation Law
Forbade free blacks and slaves from boating on the Potomac

1664
Maryland Marriage Law
Enactment of the first anti-interracial marriage statutes

1721
Delaware Marriage Law
Forbade marriage between white women and black men

1811
Delaware Migration Law
Forbade migration of blacks; levied $10 per week fine

1800
Maryland Agricultural Laws
Prohibited blacks from raising and selling agricultural products

1805
Maryland Licensure Law
Forbade blacks from selling tobacco or corn without license

1807
Maryland Residence Law
Limited residence of entering free blacks to two weeks

1810
Maryland Voting Law
Restricted voting rights to whites only

1827
Maryland Occupation Acts (Petition to Legislature)
Prohibited blacks from driving or owning hacks, carts or drays

1844
Maryland Occupation Acts
Excluded blacks from the carpentry trade

But what has it done bad, LATELY?

Master of Ossus wrote:But what has it done bad, LATELY?

We can get pretty rednecky around these areas, mind you, boy!

So let's see, the last offense that you listed occured 158 years ago...

As said before, you got anything more recent?

It's still a bit, err, embarrassing, even though it was a while ago... I'm sure other states have similar histories, but still.

No, Maryland, say it ain't so! Say it ain't so!!

Wow, I'm a bit looney when I'm tired. Off to bed now, for real this time. I mean it! Argh. Sleep. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............

MKSheppard wrote:

Master of Ossus wrote:But what has it done bad, LATELY?

We can get pretty rednecky around these areas, mind you, boy!

Unfortunately, this is true...

verilon wrote:

MKSheppard wrote:

Master of Ossus wrote:But what has it done bad, LATELY?

We can get pretty rednecky around these areas, mind you, boy!

Unfortunately, this is true...

There's one small area of Northern! Delaware which would make you swear you're in West Virginia.

Sea Skimmer wrote:

verilon wrote:

MKSheppard wrote: We can get pretty rednecky around these areas, mind you, boy!

Unfortunately, this is true...

There's one small area of Northern! Delaware which would make you swear you're in West Virginia.

I wouldn't know about West Virginia...I already know enough of Virginia...

I've seen West Virginia University. No rednecks, though, rednecks don't go to college. I'm sure mant of the people came form other states, there aren't enough college-bound teens in WV to fill the universiy up.

Master of Ossus wrote:But what has it done bad, LATELY?

Prince Georges County was one of the LAST coutnies to be desegregated in public schools and it was only court ordered bussing in the late 1970s that accomplished this (you don't think "deliberate speed" was placed into Brown v Board of Ed to force everyone to change things overnight?). Despite racial acceptance growing Michael Steele (running mate to Robert Ehrlich) will be the first black man EVER to hold a statewide office in Maryland.


That's about all I can think of. Columbia, where I live, was actually built as an inter-racial paradise and it has succeded remarkably well I think.