Sandy Spring | Maryland Neighborhoods

Описание: Sandi Williams, Co-Director of the Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery, and Sandy Spring residents Tom Farquhar and Natalie Thomas, discuss the history of the village. Sandy Spring was first settled in 1728 as a predominantly Quaker farming community dependent on slave labor. Between the 1770s and 1820s Quakers in Sandy Spring manumitted their slaves and many of the formerly enslaved families remained in the area as wage workers. As the home to a proud free Black population, the village was an oasis of sorts, surrounded by slave holding plantations.

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