Stories of Flight


Baltimore County

  • Fugitives
  • Accomplices
  • Slaveholders
  • Other

Benjamin Allen
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1833 

Charles Brown
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1835 

John Hawkins
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1852 

Tom Hughson
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1847 

Davy Jones
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1846 

Henry Jones
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1853 

John Kyle
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1846 

Mark Posey
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1863 

Rebecca Posey
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1852 

James Watkins
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1844 

Mary Ann Coates
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1862

John Robinson
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1841

James Wilson
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1841

Joseph Sinnett
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1852

Rev. Charles T. Torrey
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1844

Edward Gorsuch
Slave owner, Baltimore County, Maryland, 19th Century

Margaret Creek
Freedom Petitioner, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1799

Ellick
Slave of Charles Ridgely at Hampton Plantation, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1829

Andrew Freeman
Farm Laborer, Baltimore County, Maryland

Ridgely Compound of Hampton
Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland