Stories of Flight


Caroline County

  • Fugitives
  • Accomplices
  • Slaveholders
  • Other

Bet
Fled from Slavery, Caroline County, 1834

John Chase
Fled from servitude, Caroline County, 1852

George Comegys
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1850

Alford Fisher
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1852

Jim
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1851

Hannah Peters
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857

Robert Rich
Fled from servitude, Caroline County, 1856

Charles Ross
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, 1859

Harriet Ross
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857

Joshua Saddler
Fled from slavery, Caroline County

Peter Still
Fled from slavery, Eastern Shore, Maryland, between 1801 and 1807

Sidney Still
Fled from slavery twice, Eastern Shore, Maryland, between 1801 and 1807

John Stokes
Fled from Slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1849

Henry Townsend
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857 

Thomas Teat
Fled from slavery, Caroline County, 1851

George Doherty
Accused accomplice to slave flight, Caroline County, 1853

Anna Murray Douglass
Free Born Black, Caroline County, Maryland

Isaac Gibson
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1851

Daniel Hubbard
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1858

Jonah Kelley
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland

Arthur W. Leverton
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1858

Hannah Leverton
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland

Jacob Leverton
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland

Benjamin Ross
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857



John Allen
Property Owner, Caroline County

Thomas B. Culbreth
Slaveholder, Caroline County, Maryland

Robert Hardcastle
Slaveholder, Caroline County, Maryland

William M. Hardcastle
Slaveholder, Caroline County, Maryland

David Knotts
Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

John L. McCombs
Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

John McGuire
Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

Lucy Richardson
Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

Patty Cannon
Enslaved Kidnapper, Caroline County, Maryland

Bayard Davis
Property Owner, Caroline County

Cyrus James
Kidnapper, Caroline County, Maryland

Rev. James M. McCarter
Preacher/Abolitionist, Caroline County, Maryland

Josephine Webb
Poisoned her owner, Caroline County, Maryland, 1855

Rixom Webb
Black Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland