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Primary source:
An Act to Prevent the Inconveniences Arising from Slaves Being Permitted to Act as Free, state law, 1787.
Caption: In the wake of the Revolution, many Southern states liberalized their provisions for manumission. This period of liberalized manumission came to an end between 1810 and 1820.
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Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any person who shall permit and authorise any slave belonging to him or herself in his or her own right, or possessed in the right of another, to go at large or hire him or herself within this state, shall incur the penalty of five pounds current money per month, except ten days at harvest.
II. And be it enacted, That any person who shall hire a slave by contract with such slave shall incur the penalty of five pounds current money per month . . . .
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An Act to Prevent the Inconveniences Arising from Slaves Being Permitted to Act as Free, May 1787, Laws of Maryland, chap. 33, reprinted in The Laws of Maryland, To Which Are Prefixed Charter, with an English Translation, the Bill of Rights and Constitution of the State, comp. William Kilty (Maryland: Frederick Green, 1799–1800).
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