this  State for a period of not less than ten nor more than twenty   years."93
After two weeks, Rev. Green was found guilty of the charges against him and was confined to ten years in the Maryland State Penitentiary,   located  in  Baltimore,  commencing   14,  May   1857.   94 Due to the character of Rev. Green, some whites wrote to the Governor of Maryland in "an effort to secure a pardon,"  95 or executive  clemency.   However,  many  slaveholders  who  resided  in Green's  community  also wrote to  the  Governor that  "slaves  were leaving us in numbers from 2 to  15 or  18 from the time of (Green's) arrest, and that now there was scarcely any Negroes ran away at all" 96    But after the letter was written, "but before it was (mailed and) delivered (to  the Governor),  a large number of slaves  escaped from the  Cambridge  area of Dorchester County.     On  24  October  1857  "30 or more made their escape  .  .  .(which made it a total of)  forty-four who had left that place within two weeks." 97    Apparently, the fear of reprisals against them as a result of the Green case did not deter many slaves  from escaping;  and in the face of more restraints, the slaves  escaped  at  a much  faster rate  whenever the  opportunity presented   itself.