Stories of Flight

Frederick County


  • Fugitives
  • Accomplices
  • Slaveholders
  • Other

Ben Addison
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1829

Francois Arajou
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1809

Fred Fowler
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1858

Gassaway
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1853

Henry Gates
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1851

John
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1849

John Shaw
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1858

Levi Brown
Accomplice to slave flight, Frederick County, Maryland, 1855

David Bruce
Accomplice to slave flight, Frederick County, Maryland, 1833

Charles Hall
Accomplice to slave flight, Frederick County, Maryland, 1850

Lorenzo Penn
Accomplice to slave flight, Frederick County, Maryland, 1843

John Shaw
Accomplice to slave flight, Frederick County, Maryland, 1855

Zachariah Shaw
Accomplice to slave flight, Frederick County, Maryland, 1855

None at this time

Bill
Co-conspirator, insurrectionary slave plot, Frederick County, Maryland,1814

Lewis Charlton
Released from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1842

Elias Jones
Co-conspirator, insurrectionary slave plot, Frederick County, Maryland,1814