Groups in Md. Mark Role of Bar in Perpetuating, Eliminating Slavery

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Marylanders need not look far -- particularly this time of year - - to find a lasting legacy of the state's checkered past, slavery historian Anthony Cohen told judges and lawyers who gathered recently at a 19th-century courthouse in Rockville.

The General Assembly's tradition of meeting between January and April began in order to enable farmers, who constituted most of the legislative body in the first half of the 1800s, to meet without having to worry about their crops, Cohen said at the Red Brick Courthouse.

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Groups in Md. Mark Role of Bar in Perpetuating, Eliminating Slavery

Those lawmakers, many of whom owned slaves, were not of a mind to abolish slavery in the state because they "had a vested interest in maintaining the status quo," Cohen said.

But many Maryland residents also have a da...

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