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Report shows link between slave trade, University of Maryland College Park

the entrance to McKeldin Library on UMD's College Park campus
Library and campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. (sframephoto/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

By John-John Williams IV, The Baltimore Banner

A new report shows that the slave economy was deeply entrenched in the origins of the University of Maryland, College Park, including enslaved people living and working on land that forms a large section of the current campus...Read More