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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 319 Print image (36K) |
| enslaved or separated from their families if they were suspected of having rendered assistance to fugitives. The classic example of these events is the life of Daniel Hubbard, who was a victim of mob violence following the Leverton incident. A free black, Hubbard was described as ... .... an industrious and peaceable resident of (Dorchester) the county, who for thirty-two years, has paid annually for his wife, and also for his children as they grew old enough to work, they being slaves for life. He (Hubbard) received a message that they (the members of the city and also the mob) had authority from the Governor, to do what they pleased with any concerned in the escape or harboring of runaways, and there was a party of fifty, which could be increased to five hundred, who were ready to carry him to Cambridge, and hang him merely on suspicion. 17 Daniel Hubbard was forced to escape to Philadelphia in order to save his own life, but he always stated that he knew nothing of the fugitives . . . . . . and never desired to, as it has been his aim, through life, to avoid interfering in such cases, which may be inferred from |