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In the spring of 1825, after serving as a cabin boy aboard his master's sloop, the Sally Lloyd, the adolescent slave Tom Bailey returned to Wye House, the grand Eastern Shore plantation of the Lloyd family, one of the richest and most powerful families in Maryland.
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black caulkers, free black households, colonization convention, chattel records, freedom certificates, black property owners, free black workers, manumission deeds, semiskilled trades, black parishioners, urban slavery, slave hiring, second quote, free negroes, free black population, antebellum cities, tobacco coast, free black women, first quote, mixed churches, black residents, free black families, court papers, black masters, many free blacks
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Baltimore County, Fells Point, African Americans, Upper South, Eastern Shore, United States, Methodist Episcopal, New York, Baltimore Town, Daniel Coker, African Methodist, Frederick Douglass, Lower South, Civil War, Deep South, William Watkins, House of Delegates, New Orleans, Maryland State Colonization Society, Slemmer's Alley, South Carolina, British Guiana, Ethan Allen Andrews, Freedom's Port, West Indies
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