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A Hackney Cab Ride through The Corporation of The City of Baltimore: 1834

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Mark Charney

With free blacks and slaves sharing the streets alongside merchant bankers, shopkeepers, artisans, seaman, and an influx of immigrant labor, antebellum Baltimore City in the early 1830s was growing fast. Irish and German emigrants often booked passage with Baltimore as … Continue reading →

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