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Paul W. Callahan
When Democracy Fell: The Subjugation of Maryland During the U.S. Civil War
Pennsauken, N.J.: BookBaby, 2023

The impulse behind the colony of Maryland came from George Calvert, Lord Baltimore — a convert to Roman Catholicism. The Royal Charter for it was granted to his son Cecil in 1632. The colony’s purpose was to provide a refuge for English Catholics, and for a time Catholics dominated its government, although it was religiously tolerant toward Protestants.