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Description of Pictures: The exhibit was updated a bit from when I saw it in 2015 to include a small section on the removal of Confederate and the memorial to racist Judge Taney.

Divided Voices: Maryland in the Civil War
Through 2016 [given that these photos were taken in 2019, apparently it's running longer!]
The Maryland Historical Society’s (MdHS) Museum opened Maryland’s largest and most comprehensive Civil War exhibit in April 2011. The impact of the war on the people of Maryland is be told in personal terms in Divided Voices: Maryland in the Civil War. The largest Civil War exhibit in the museum’s 167-year history occupies over 5,000 square feet and tell the story of a tragedy in three acts: the romantic war, the real war and the long reunion.
Featuring a “Time Tunnel” with 3-D videos which leads visitors back to 1861. On Saturdays and Sundays the Maryland Historical Society Players will perform short vignettes of major events that took place in Maryland.

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1. MDHSDV_191103_018.JPG: Colonization Society Cabinet, circa 1820
2. MDHSDV_191103_021.JPG: The Maryland State Colonization Society Prior to the Civil War, Maryland was home to the largest population of free African Americans in any slave state. The free black community threatened the institution of race-based slavery and caused tensions between white and black Marylanders. In an attempt to ease the growing nationwide tension between black and white communities, white citizens founded the Colonization Society of America in 1816. The Society's solution was to relocate free and formerly enslaved African Americans to Africa where it was believed they could live in greater freedom. Organized in 1827, the Maryland State Colonization Society assisted in the relocation of free African Americans to a settlement in Cape Palmas, Liberia.
3. MDHSDV_191103_023.JPG: View of Perry Hall Slave Quarters with Field Hands at Work, c 1805 Francis Guy
4. MDHSDV_191103_028.JPG: Baltimore Fruit Vendor, c 1860 Andrew John Henry Way
5. MDHSDV_191103_041.JPG: Population of the State of Maryland According to the Federal Census of 1860 Maryland's environmental and economic diversity affected the rates of enslavement throughout the state. Economic activities such as farming, milling, ironworking, ship building, and craft production impacted the population in each area and the types of labor enslaved and free people performed. Use this map to explore the demographics of white, enslaved, and free black Marylanders across the state. Which economic activities do you think used the most enslaved labor? Where might there have been opportunities for free African Americans? Which counties have the highest number of enslaved individuals? Can you see where the proportions of enslaved to slaveholders are the highest? Are they rural or urban counties?
6. MDHSDV_191103_048.JPG: Montgomery County 18,322 total population 1,552 free black population 5,421 enslaved population
7. MDHSDV_191103_050.JPG: Prince George's County 23,527 total population 1,198 free black population 12,479 enslaved population
8. MDHSDV_191103_064.JPG: African Americans in Maryland Slavery and Freedom Prior to the Civil War Throughout Maryland, enslaved African Americans worked in the fields cultivating tobacco, wheat, and other crops. They served in the households of white masters and labored in urban trades, such as shipbuilding, manufacturing, and craft work. Prior to the Civil War, Maryland was home to the largest population of free African Americans in any slave state in the United States. Living predominately in urban centers, free African Americans took on roles in industry, agriculture, craft, and the arts while navigating a complex and evolving legal status that often placed them at risk.
9. MDHSDV_191103_067.JPG: Reconstructing the Nation
10. MDHSDV_191103_069.JPG: "War does not determine who is right -- only who is left." View of the plinth that formerly held the statue of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864(. Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore Chief Justice Taney delivered the Supreme Court majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). This ruling stated that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not citizens of the United States.
11. MDHSDV_191103_075.JPG: Are we still divided?
12. MDHSDV_191103_081.JPG: The Long Reunion
13. MDHSDV_191103_085.JPG: The End of War
14. MDHSDV_191103_088.JPG: "I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than dissolution of the Union." -- Robert E. Lee speaking about secession, January, 1861
15. MDHSDV_191103_094.JPG: Robert E. Lee's General Order No. 9 Photo-reproduction of library original Upon Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to the Union Army at Appomattox Court House he made his farewell address to his men. Lee's general order to cease fighting and return home is poignant in its simplicity and gratitude for the efforts of those who fought and sacrificed for the cause of the South under his leadership. Transcribed by a clerk at the Headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia, twelve original copies were made to be sent to Lee's regiments, with an additional copy given to the clerk. Immediately the Order began being duplicated with versions disseminating across the country. Some of these, such as the Order No. 9 held by the Maryland Historical Society, are signed by Lee himself.
16. MDHSDV_191103_097.JPG: United States Colored Troops After the War
17. MDHSDV_191103_107.JPG: The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment
18. MDHSDV_191103_110.JPG: The Fifteenth Amendment
19. MDHSDV_191103_132.JPG: Flag of the Fourth Regiment, United States Colored Troops In August of 1863, the "Colored Ladies of Baltimore" presented this hand-painted, hand-sewn silk flag to the Fourth Regiment, United States Colored Troops. It is one of only twenty-five USCT flags known to survive today. Regiments carried both the national colors and a regimental flag into battle. They watched their regimental flag to determine their regiment's movements. Originally, this flag would have been six-and-a-half tall by six feet wide, but hard use, time, and age have eroded its original dimensions.
20. MDHSDV_191103_134.JPG: Hand-carved Wooden Rosaries, Charms, Bracelets, and Rings Carved by Confederate Prisoners at Point Lookout Prison
21. MDHSDV_191103_140.JPG: Bendann Photography
22. MDHSDV_191103_143.JPG: Photography and Literacy in the Civil War Era
23. MDHSDV_191103_147.JPG: United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.)
24. MDHSDV_191103_152.JPG: Colored Troops in Combat
25. MDHSDV_191103_155.JPG: The Emancipation Proclamation
26. MDHSDV_191103_161.JPG: Emancipation in Maryland
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