Intended Audience
Chandra Manning, professor of history at Georgetown University, will talk about the Uneasy Alliances in Civil War Era Southern Maryland.
By the end of the Civil War, half-a-million formerly enslaved people had taken refuge with the Union Army and forged a wary alliance that won the war, ended slavery and remade citizenship for all Americans. Yet this biracial alliance between formerly enslaved people and Union authorities was especially fraught with fear and violence in Maryland. From kidnapping, to intimidation, to property destruction, to murder, this talk will explore threats that this uneasy alliance faced in southern Maryland, the strategies that Black Marylanders used to counter the threats and the ways in which the story is and is not remembered today.