Stories of Flight


Kent County

  • Fugitives
  • Accomplices
  • Slaveholders
  • Slave Crimes
  • Other

John Alexander
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1857

Samuel Benton
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1857

Susan Jane Boile
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1857

Sam Davis
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1856

Ephraim Ennis
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1858

Abe Fineer
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1856

Cornelius Fuller
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland

Harriett Fuller
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland

Asbury Irwin
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1858

Lydia Ann Johns
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1858

Isaac Mason
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland

Thomas Parker
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1856

Isaac Reed
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1856

Henry Saunders
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1856

Harriett Shepherd
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1855

Henry Thompson
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1858

Samuel Turner
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1857

Leeds Wright
Fled from Slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1857

James L. Bowers
Accomplice to slave flight, Kent County, Maryland, 1858

Harriet Tillison
Accomplice to slave flight, Kent County

George Wilmer
Accomplice to slave flight, Kent County

Ezekiel F. Chambers
Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Araminta Frazier
Slaveholder, Kent County, Maryland

Joseph T. Mitchell
Slaveholder, Kent County, Maryland

Michael Newbold
Slaveholder, Kent County, Maryland

Hugh Wallis
Slaveholder, Kent County, Maryland

George Vickers
Slaveholder, Kent County, Maryland

James P. Wickes
Slaveholder, Kent County, Maryland

Hanged Slaves

Negro Babb
Slave in Kent County, Maryland

Negro Mingo
Slave in Kent County, Maryland

Negro Jack
Slave in Kent County, Maryland

Isaac Caulk
Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Isaiah Caulk
Free Black, Kent County, Maryland

Joshua Caulk
Mulatto Propety Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Joshua Chapel
African Methodist Episcopal Church, Kent County, Maryland 1839

Joseph Cotton
Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Joseph Cotton
Enslaved Black, Kent County, Maryland

Isaac Cotton
Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Isaac Cotton
Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Charles W. Jones
Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Isaac S. Jones
Free Black, Kent County, Maryland

James A. Jones
Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Marshall J. Jones
Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

William Perkins
Entrepreneur/Black Property Owner, Kent County, Maryland

Spencer Waters
Fled from slavery, Kent County, Maryland, 1844