Essential Question:
Should the Maryland Legislature declare November 1st a state holiday?
Prompt: Write a letter to your state legislator giving him/her your opinion about creating a state holiday on November 4th (the official date Maryland freed their slaves).
Be sure to reference or refer to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in your letter.
Answer to get 50 points and brainliest
Dear Maryland legislator, it has come to my attention that in my community slavery was a big part in Maryland and to have a holiday representing when they freed the slaves and began there own life free in our great country would mean a lot to the families that suffered slavery.
