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Keyser Söze

On 4/19/16 12:10 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:06:41 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

We will never know. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation didn't end
slavery. He made exceptions. He even publicly stated that blacks
should not have the full citizenship rights of whites.

The Emancipation Proclamation ONLY applied to the confederate states.
There were still slaves in Southern Maryland, until the Maryland
legislature freed them.
Since there was not really a war there, you see the same kind of
integration I was referring to. Until the white flight of the 60s, the
counties in southern maryland had plenty of black owned farms, right
next to white owned farms and they people got along just fine. It
wasn't until the "white flight" people from DC moved there that they
had problems.

There are quite a few black owned farms still being worked in Southern
Maryland, and in my years here I have encountered a handful of these
farmers and was delighted to hear them relate some of their family
history. I usually meet a few I haven't met before at the county
agricultural fair every fall. I've met others at the several nice
roadside produce stands they operate in the summer and fall.

We have a number of roads in the county named after prominent black
farming families.

You haven't lived in the DC area in how many years?