Historic St. Mary's City, a Maryland-based museum and archaeological organization, is opening up a reconstructed 17th-century ...

Maryland, 1664 That whatsoever free-born ... masters freed from this doubt may more carefully propagate Christianity by permitting slaves to be admitted to that sacrament. Virginia, 1682 Act ...

Maryland, 1664: The first colonial ... or Indian" would be banished from the colony forever. • Virginia, 1667: Christian baptisms would no longer affect the bondage of blacks or Indians ...