Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...

The sole sponsor of a state resolution aimed at exonerating nearly a dozen colonial Marylanders accused of witchcraft or executed by capital punishment testifie ...

This testimony urges the general assembly of Maryland to vote yes to HJ0002 and support the exoneration of alleged witches of colonial Maryland .

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 ...