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*jaw drops*

Okay. I have four text books for my History of Maryland class, but I've already fallen in love with Maryland: Unity and Diversity, edited by A. Franklin Parks and John B. Wiseman (two of the professors at FSU). Know why? First off, the foreward was fantabulous. And then, on page five, I found the following:

"Maryland from the beginning welcomed a variety of Christian settlers: Catholics and Quakers, persecuted elsewhere; Labadists, who preached celibacy and soon died out..."

Anyone else find that funny? I liked it. Two pages later, I found another quote which made both me and Joan squee ourselves.

"Scoffing at British and French maritime restrictions and using the bay's waters to full advantage, Maryland watermen smuggled; when those countries went to war, Marylanders went to sea as privateers and armed merchantment prepared for whatever fell their way. By 1812 pirating on the high seas had become a Maryland specialty. In declaring a blockade of the entire English coast from the deck of the privateer Chasseur in 1814, Captain Thomas Boyle, like Tohmas Cresap before him, epitomized Maryland audacity."

*love* Did you know Marylanders were pirates? I didn't know that Marylanders were pirates.

I. Love. This. Book.