Lecture: Indentured Servitude & Slavery

Maryland State Archivist, actor, and writer Chris Haley will give a presentation on Indentured Servitude and Slavery from implementation for early settlers in the 1600s to the abolition of slavery with the passage of Maryland’s 1864 state constitution. Hear the remarkable story of Mathias de Sousa. One of the original settlers to arrive aboard the Arc and the Dove in the 1600s, he rose from indentured servitude to become a member of the Maryland General Assembly. Haley will also address how slavery and indentured servitude affected the life and legacy of famous Marylander, Benjamin Banneker