Most former slaves in the South, meanwhile, became sharecroppers during the Reconstruction period, leasing plots of land from their former masters in exchange for a percentage of the crop yield. By 1880, more than 80 percent of southern blacks had become sharecroppers.
WHAT: The southbound I-95 ramp to Key Highway (Exit 55) will be closed overnight. The detour will direct motorists from southbound I-95 to Caton Avenue (Exit 50), to northbound I-95, to Key Highway (Exit 55). The northbound I-95 ramp to Russell Street (Exit 52) will be closed overnight. The detour will direct motorists from northbound I-95 to Martin Luther King Boulevard, to Lee Street, to Russell Street. The northbound I-95 ramp to Washington Boulevard (Exit 51) will be closed overnight.
From Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI). (40 minutes, 36 miles) Take the Baltimore-Washington Parkway south toward Washington, DC. At I-495 (Capital Beltway), head west toward Silver Spring/Bethesda. From the Beltway (I-495), take Exit 36, Old Georgetown Road (Rt. 187).