From "The Enemy Nearly All 'Round Us" exhibit website. "African Americans and the War of 1812."
An article from the Maryland Gazette, Annapolis, Thursday, Dec. 22, 1814: "Upon the return of the British frigate Menelaus down the Bay on Sunday last, she came to anchor nearly opposite the city, where she continued for the night.
"While at anchor negroes to the (?) of between twenty and thirty, property of different individuals in this city and neighborhood, went off to her and were taken down the Bay."
Runaway Slaves. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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