Baltimore has always had a significant African American population. Even though Maryland was a slave state, Baltimore had a larger Black free population than it slave population. Baltimores proximity to Washington DC puts it in the same market
commercially. It also makes the combined Black population the second largest in the US after New York City with 2.2 million combined. The city itself is steep in Black culture and home to three Historically Black Schools: Morgan State University, Coppin State University and Sojourner Douglas College.
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Black Baltimore Detailed ACS Census Report for 2009
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