Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Colored Population to the House of Delegates

The Colored Population of Maryland, is divided into the slave and free.

The relations of the former have been so long established and are so thoroughly understood, that legislation is rarely necessary in regard to it: nor is there, now, anything concerning it that requires the especial notice of the committee.

On the other hand, the free colored population, including, as well persons born free, as emancipated slaves, has been made, again and again, the subject of legislative action, and, at this time, circumstances give to all matters connected with it, a more than ordinary interest.

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