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654 HISTORICAL ANNOTATION

White Barwick, the new husband of Andrew's widow, Ann. Aaron Anthony Ledger
B, 1812-26, folders 95, 159, Dodge Collection, MdAA; Preston, Young Frederick
Douglass, 27, 91, 225.
30.1 virago] A manlike female, heroic warrior.
30.5 Her death] Harriet Bailey died on the Holme Hill Farm after a long illness
in late 1825 or early 1826. Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 64.
30.29-30 slavery in...mildest form] According to historian Barbara Jeanne
Fields and others, the attitudes of and actions taken by slaveholders in Maryland were
similar to those in other southern states, so in terms of provisions and treatment,
enslavement in the border state did not differ much from the Lower South. Still, the
brisk pace of slave trading and the prevalence of small-scale slaveholding, both of
which disrupted the fabric of families, did make practices in Maryland remarkable
and, in some ways, more bitter than elsewhere. Barbara Jeanne Fields, Slavery and
Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (New
Haven, Conn., 1985), 23-26; Christopher Phillips, Freedom's Port: The African
American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860 (Urbana, Ill., 1997),
14-20; Frank
Towers, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (Charlottesville, Va.,
2004), 61-62, 173; Steven Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in
American Life (New York, 2005), 86-87, 98-99.
31.6 home plantation of Col. Edward Lloyd, in Talbot County] Wye House.
31.7-9 It was far. . .in its neighborhood] As late as 1833 the community of St.
Michaels did not have a public school for the children of local planters and farmers.
Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 110.
31.12 Page] Joel Page (1784-1832) was born in Conway, Franklin County,
Massachusetts. In 1805 he graduated from Yale College and sometime soon after that
became the resident tutor in the household of Edward Lloyd V. Among his tutees over
the years was Edward Lloyd VI. Page became a beloved member of the Lloyd household
and remained there until he died in 1832 of complications related to psychological
disorder. He was interred in the Lloyd burial grounds. Franklin Bowditch Dickson
Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 6 vols. (New York,
1911), 5:788; Tilghman, Talbot County, 1:211; Preston, Young Frederick Douglass,
59, 221.
31.17 mechanics] White artisans in the South identified themselves as mechanics
in the early nineteenth century. White mechanics distinguished themselves from free
black artisans by virtue of their legal rights and moral obligations to their communities
as taxpayers and as citizens. Unlike their eighteenth-century predecessors, nineteenth-
century mechanics embraced the principles of market capitalism as a natural
precondition of their advancement in the traditional artisan hierarchy through a process
of material accumulation. Bruce Laurie, Artisans into Workers: Labor in
Nineteenth-Century America (New York, 1989), 49-51; David R. Roediger, The
Wages of Whiteness, rev. ed. (New York, 2003 ), 52.
31.25-27 this plantation. . .own vessels] The Maryland property holdings of