Celebrating Rights and Responsibilities
Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870
An Interactive Historical Investigation by David Troy © 1996
Marriage: blacks were now allowed to legally marry -- a practice which had been banned during the days of slavery. A married slave was a less marketable slave.

Inscription: "Liberty protects the mariage alter."


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