Essay On The Difference Between Before And After The Revolutionary War

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.” This quote from Abraham Lincoln takes place far from the beginning of slavery and the Revolution War but illustrate how it is important for each person to respect the freedom of an other person. All the states north of the Chesapeake gradually abolished slavery after the Revolution in different way. This essay explains how people from a state as Maryland has changed their mind about slavery between before and after the Revolution War. For analyse this change of mind, we need first to have a look of the born and the beggining of the slavery, how it came up, why and for what. Then an explanation of the Revoluton War in the state of Maryland

First of all slavery in Maryland during more than 200 years. Indeed from 1642 to 1864 the date of the abolition of slavery Africans were used as slave for in majority working for tough and difficult industry such as cotton plantation. As we said in our introduction Maryland is a neighbor state of Virginia so they developped the same model as their neighbor for slavery since the beginning. From the beginning of the XVIIe century, tobacco is the main business in Maryland. Actually, during this period the demand for tobacco has increased largely and the labor supply was reduced. The state of Maryland brought the first Africans in 1642 with thirtheen slaves for workink in their tobacco plantation. The years after and mostly during the XVIIe century the import of slaves shoot up with massive transport from Africa to St. Mary’s city the first port in the state at this time. For example in 1700 the population of Maryland was 25,000 and fifty five years later the population was 130,000 and forty percente of the population was black! But since the beginning this population was treated has under men, as guilty people who never

Even if some writters and philosophers try to define what is a human condition people are refractory to any changement about black people situation and slavery because it represents a lot of money and trades. Hopefully, a movement tried to change people mind until aboliton: the Methodists and the Maryland State Colonization Society. First, the Methodists are people close to the Christian religion who from 1780 condemned slavery. At this period, peole are very closed to their religion that is why this movement has so much influenced people at this time. Furthermore four years after their first blame about slavery, they suspended preachers from their parish if they owned slaves. It was an important changement for people who thought respect the religion and do it for god. In early 1820 the Methodists evolve for the Maryland Society of the Abolition of Slavery with the same proposal: aboliton of slavery and slaves freedom. Giles Badger Stebbins, one of the most active person in the organization delcared in 1833: “"Resolved, That this society believe, and act upon the belief, that colonization tends to promote emancipation, by affording the emancipated slave a home where he can be happier than in this country, and so inducing masters to manumit who would not do so unconditionally...[so that] at a time not remote, slavery would cease in the state by the full consent of those interested." This extract