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    FREEDOM’S HARBOR

    Dec 25, 2018 3 minutes
    –Melissa A. Winn

    Celebrated today as the birthplace of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, two names synonymous with the pursuit of personal freedoms for African Americans, the Eastern Shore of Maryland at the outset of the Civil War was vastly more divided in its loyalties. Slavery dominated the region, which was blanketed by plantations owned by the most powerful men in the area, and many locals went south to join the Confederate Army.

    Residents of small Quaker settlements on the Eastern Shore, however, abhorred slavery and favored the Union, as did many prosperous farmers and fishermen up and

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