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Updated: May 4, 2025
It was a pretty hard and cruel life for the darkeys, declares the Negro. Describing the general conditions of Maryland slaves, he said: "We would work from sunrise to sunset every day except Sundays and on New Year's Day. Christmas made little difference at Contee, except that we were given extra rations of food then.
As one of the visitors represented that he was second in rank in the town, he was finally received on board the flag-ship, but the commodore declined to see him, turning him over to Mr. Contee, the flag lieutenant.
Simms' work at Contee was to saddle the horses, cut wood, and make fires and sometimes work in the field. He voted for President Lincoln and witnessed the second inauguration of Lincoln after he was set free. Maryland 12/6/37 Rogers Reference: Personal interview with Jim Taylor, at his home, 424 E. 23rd St., Baltimore. "I was born in Talbot County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near St.
Both of them were born on the Contee tobacco plantation, owned by Richard and Charles Contee, whose forbears were early settlers in the State. Simms always carries a rabbit's foot, to which he attributes his good health and long life. He has been married four times since he gained his freedom.
His fourth wife, Eliza Simms, 67 years old, is now in the Providence Hospital, suffering from a broken hip she received in a fall. The aged Negro recalls many interesting and exciting incidents of slavery days. More than a hundred slaves worked on the plantation, some continuing to work for the Contee brothers when they were set free.
Born on a tobacco plantation at Contee, Prince Georges County, Maryland, June 17, 1841, Dennis Simms, Negro ex-slave, 628 Mosher Street, Baltimore, Maryland, is still working and expects to live to be a hundred years old. He has one brother living, George Simms, of South River, Maryland, who was born July 18, 1849.
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