{"gt_parse": {"text_sequence": "ue African-American history of t hat area during the m id-century:I think that the To wson Maryland area that I am famili ar with differs from other parts o f Maryland because of the p roximity to one of the largest slave pl antations in the country. The Ridgely P lantation which owned a ll of the property from Baltimore County to Baltimore City and o ther s urro undin g areas . ... T his w as a v ery uniqu e place of which I have never hear d of any equal to it. Every African American schoo l age child in Baltimore County h ad to attend school at some point at Carver in East Towson. ... I rea lize now that as a yo ungster the older African Ame ricans av oided talkin g abo ut sla very o r the nearby Ridgely Plantation because they themselves were not too far removed from slav er y its el f.Towson is located at .Accordin g to the United St ates Census B"}}