DOJ report on Baltimore echoes centuries-old limits on African-American freedom in the Charm City
- Written by Jessica Millward, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
African-American rights in Baltimore have always been in jeopardy. The recently released report from the Department of Justice on the Baltimore Police Department is sobering, but not surprising.
As a scholar of early African-American history in Maryland, I see similarities between laws regarding enslaved and free blacks living in Baltimore prior to...