Stories of Flight


Talbot County

  • Fugitives
  • Accomplices
  • Slaveholders
  • Slave Crimes
  • Other

Josiah "Joe" Bailey
Fled from slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1856

William Bailey
Fled from slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1856

Elizabeth Banks
Fled from slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1855

Frederick Douglass
Fled from slavery, Baltimore City, Maryland, 1838

William Green
Fled from slavery, Oxford Neck, Talbot County, Maryland, circa 1840

Eliza Manokey
Fled from slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1856

Murray
Fled from slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1858

Emory Roberts
Fled from slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1845

Rev. Joseph Chain
Accomplice to slave flight, Talbot County, Maryland

Daniel Mackey
Accomplice to slave flight, Talbot County, Maryland, 1858

Capt. Aaron Anthony
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

J. Baggs
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

Jeremiah Banning
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

Joseph Callahan
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

William Caulk
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

Colonel Nicholas Goldsborough
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

William Hayward
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

Henry Hollyday
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

William R. Hughlett
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

Col. Edward Lloyd VI
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

Col. Edward Lloyd VII
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

William James Trippe
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

William B. Willis
Property Owner, Talbot County, Maryland

Pardoned Slaves

Negro Abraham
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Ben
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Ben
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Bett Pone
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Harry
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Judith
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Tom
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Talbot County, Maryland

Hanged Slaves

Negro Cato
Slave in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro David
Slave in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Joe
Slave in Talbot County, Maryland

Negro Nero
Slave in Talbot County, Maryland

Rev. John Dixon Long
Preacher/Abolitionist, Talbot County, Maryland

Third Haven Meeting House
Quaker Meeting House, Talbot County, Maryland

Freedom's Friend Lodge

Freedom's Friend Lodge No. 1024
Black Mutual Aid Society; Saint Michaels, Maryland

Robert Brown
Founding Officer of Freedom's Friend Lodge No. 1024, Trustee to Union M.E. Church, Talbot County, Maryland

Daniel E. Chaney
Founder of Freedom's Friend Lodge No. 1024 and Trustee of Union M.E. Church, Talbot County, Maryland

Joseph Leeds Johnson
Founding Officer of Freedom's Friend Lodge No. 1024, Talbot County, Maryland

William Skinner
Founding Officer of Freedom's Friend Lodge No. 1024, Laborer, Talbot County, Maryland

Unionville

John Blackwell
USCT Soldier, Talbot County, Maryland

Captain John Cowgill
Union Soldier, Talbot County, Maryland

Ezekiel Cowgill
Quaker Landowner, Talbot County, Maryland

Horace Gibson
USCT Soldier, Talbot County, Maryland

Peter Johnson
USCT Soldier, Talbot County, Maryland

Matthew Roberts
USCT Soldier and Fled from Slavery, Talbot County, Maryland