67.       See Dickson J. Preston, Young Frederick Douglas: The Maryland Years (1980).

68.       As the foremost conductor of the Underground Railroad, she returned south nineteen

times after her own escape and helped more than 300 slaves escape. John Hope Franklin,
From Slavery to Freedom 259-60 (3d ed. 1966).

69.      Ray Eldon Hiebert and Richard K. MacMaster, A Grateful Remembrance: The Story of
Mongomery County. Maryland 150, 153-4 (1976). Josiah Henson, Truth Stranger than
Fiction: Father Henson's Story of his own Life (1858); Josiah Henson, The Life of Josiah
-  Henson. Formerly a Slave. Now an Inhabitant of Canada. As Narrated by Himself (1849).

70.       Maryland Laws 1833 Ch. 111 raised the reward for seizing runaways from six dollars to
thirty dollars "whereas, from experience, it is ascertained the sum is insufficient to give
that impetus to the apprehension of such runaways as the case really deserves and to
remedy the evil thereof." But the reward was to be paid by the slave's owner, and
slaveowners objected that the reward was too high for captures within the state. Thus, the
law was repealed the following year "except so far as the same relates to slaves running
away from another State, and taken up within the limits of this State, or slaves running
away from this State and taken without the limits thereof." Maryland Laws 1834 Ch.
161.

71.       Maryland Laws 1802 ch. 96(providing inter alia for the sale at auction of runaway

servants or slaves if the owner failed to claim them); 1804 Ch. 90 (extending the time of
service for runaway negro or mulatto servants who were not slaves); 1805 Ch. 66
(limiting to clerks of county courts and register of wills the power to issue certificates of
freedom, and requiring free blacks to obtain a certificate of freedom in order to travel out
of the county); 1806 Ch. 81 (specifying rewards for runaways); 1807 Ch. 164 (clarifying
1805 statute to limit grant of certificates of freedom to clerks of the court in the county
where the deed of manumission was recorded); 1810 Ch. 63 (procedures on runaways and
petitions for freedom, including requirement that judge must be satisfied that the
individual is not a runaway before discharging him); 1817 Ch. 104 (prohibiting any
master from permitting his slave to go at large and hire himself out except at harvest
time); 1821 Ch. 183 (local law to prevent masters from allowing slaves to act as free in
Worcester and Caroline County); 1822 Ch. 115 (local law to prohibit going at large
without a writing in Somerset and Queen Annes counties except for ship pilots and
harvesting); and 1824 Ch. 85 (prohibiting masters of vessels from employing blacks
without a certificate of freedom).

72.       Maryland Laws 1838 Ch. 376. Earlier laws provided for fining ships captains $3 per hour
for carrying away negroes without passes and allowing slaves on board ship. In 1824 the
statute was amended to require clerks and captains to keep lists of all negroes allowed to
sail and providing a fine of one thousand dollars for carrying away a colored person
contrary to the act.

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