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Notes
1. William Still, The Underground Railroad: A Record
of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships,
Hair-Breadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Salves in the Efforts
for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author;
Together With Sketches of Some of the Largest Stockholders, and Most Liberal
Aiders and Advisers, of the Road (1872; Reprint, Chicago: Johnson Publishing
Company, 1970 with a forward by Benjamin Quarles), p. 169. Note: the 1970
reissue was repaginated. Thus, adjustments must be made in translating
citations to the original version. All cites in this report refer to the
1970 reprint's pagination.
2. In many ways, Runaway Slaves represents the state of
the field in terms of the types of resources necessary for understanding
flight from slavery. The authors search out South-wide patterns and trends
for fugitive activity and contexts. Our study, however, attempts the opposite,
in a sense. We argue that a perspective too broad potentially neglects
important nuances unique to the various Southern settings. Maryland was
not Georgia (or even Virginia, in several important ways). Though Runaway
Slaves makes use of valuable Maryland resources - including a substantial
amount from MSA's holding - the broader thesis diverges in some ways from
the direction we take here. Still, it is a valuable study, and informs
a great deal of out thinking on fugitives and larger black communities.
See: John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels
on the Plantation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 68.
3. For pre-nineteenth century flight, see: Gerald W. Mullin,
Flight
and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth Century Virginia (New
York: Oxford, 1972); Lathan A. Windley, compiler, Runaway Slave Advertisements:
A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790s, vol. II, "Maryland" (Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1983).
4. Wilbur H. Siebert, The Underground Railroad From
Slavery to Freedom (New York: MacMillan Company, 1898), p. 151.
5. For an excellent treatment of Douglass's early life
and his Baltimore social network, including the idea of flight and community
participation, see Dickson J. Preston, Young Frederick Douglass: the
Maryland Years (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), especially
chapter nine, "Preparation for Freedom." |