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Before the Civil War, Baltimore sat uneasily at the center of a border slave state engaged in a border war. This talk, based on an essay that won the Baltimore City Historical Society’s Arnold prize, mines a rich vein of recent scholarship on the slave experience, interstate sales, fugitivity, free Black life, colonization, and kidnapping in Baltimore City in the decades from 1825 to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. We’ll gain a new understanding of the war before the war as it unfolded in Maryland’s largest city.
