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Twenty-eight enslaved men, women and children escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A group of 28 enslaved people from Maryland escaped their slaveholders on October 24, 1857. They were a group of two dozen enslaved men, women, and children who fled from Dorchester County, Maryland.
Map depicting Palmer farm, Talbot County, Maryland, 1858. Susie Estella Palmer Hamilton was born in 1862 in Talbot County, Maryland.She was the granddaughter of farmers Milly Richardson Palmer and Benjamin Palmer, who appeared on an 1858 map of Talbot County as "B. Palmer, F.N" (free negro).
George Kephart, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia [47] William B. Petit [1] Capt. Poll, Talbott County, Md. and North Carolina [48] James Franklin Purvis (and Isaac F. Purvis), Baltimore [47] Joel Rimes, Maryland and Alabama [49] Roberson, Maryland and South Carolina [50] Lewis Scott, Baltimore [51] Henry F. Slatter, Baltimore and New ...
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 [1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. [2] [3] After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, [4] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.
The Edmonson sisters were the daughters of Paul and Amelia Edmonson, a free black man and an enslaved woman in Montgomery County, Maryland.Mary and Emily were two of 13 or 14 children who survived to adulthood, all of whom were born into slavery.
The Dover Eight refers to a group of eight black people who escaped their slaveholders of the Bucktown, Maryland area around March 8, 1857. [1] They were helped along the way by a number of people from the Underground Railroad, except for Thomas Otwell, who turned them in once they had made it north to Dover, Delaware.
Marietta is a historic house and former tobacco plantation located in Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.On the National Register of Historic Places and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, Marietta House Museum includes a federal era house, a cemetery, the original root cellar, and harness room, as well as Gabriel Duvall's original law office building.
Agnes Kane Callum (February 24, 1925 – July 22, 2015) was a genealogist known for her research into Maryland's African-American history. She was a founding member of the Baltimore Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, a frequent columnist for The Catholic Review, and the founding editor of a black genealogical journal, Flower of the Forest.