Looking forward to this event! Your readers might be interested to know that in the 1770s and 1780s - a half a century before the infamous 1838 Jesuit sale - Quakers and Methodists alike manumitted hundreds of enslaved Marylanders through private land deeds. My team has uncovered the names of 618 enslaved people on the Western Shore who were impacted by more than 80 freedom deeds filed in county courts during this period. The ancestors of Johns Hopkins were responsible for close to 100 of these manumissions, and perhaps even more that may have been recorded in counties where land records no longer exist. For more about our findings, see https://www.thehouseofhopkins.com/manumissions.
Looking forward to this event! Your readers might be interested to know that in the 1770s and 1780s - a half a century before the infamous 1838 Jesuit sale - Quakers and Methodists alike manumitted hundreds of enslaved Marylanders through private land deeds. My team has uncovered the names of 618 enslaved people on the Western Shore who were impacted by more than 80 freedom deeds filed in county courts during this period. The ancestors of Johns Hopkins were responsible for close to 100 of these manumissions, and perhaps even more that may have been recorded in counties where land records no longer exist. For more about our findings, see https://www.thehouseofhopkins.com/manumissions.