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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mainebill, post: 3037939, member: 44004&quot;]Baltimore has been a source for great stuff forever. Is an early city yet never really appreciated for it’s history. For years a lot of the best Baltimore antique furniture (ca 1775-1840) in its true heyday of fine cabinet work came often from old black families&nbsp;&nbsp; They were the servants and housekeepers post civil war and in Victorian times the people would give the outdated furniture to the help. That today is the things that have real value and after the emancipation proclamation many former slaves stayed with their former masters and families as paid help.&nbsp; Im not saying slavery was right but there were many slave owners that treated their slaves as basically family too and as people. It’s the awful ones we all remember though. Case in point Phyllis Wheatley the first black woman in America to publish a book. Her owners a wealthy Boston family&nbsp; had her educated along with their own daughters.&nbsp;&nbsp; It’s when we lose sight of and edit history is when the problems begin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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