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Counting the Cost of Freedom

The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War

Amanda Kleintop

2025

The University of North Carolina Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

A report for the Maryland Board of Claims in 1864.

Compensated Emancipation in Maryland During the Civil War

How promises of compensation for Black enlistment helped push Maryland toward ending slavery.

by Amanda Kleintop via Muster on December 4, 2025

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