John (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-0694
Fled from slavery, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1849
Biography:
John came to East Baltimore from Kent Island slave with his owner in January 1849. By that time, Baltimore had blossomed from a small hamlet on the banks of the Patapsco River into one of the nation's largest cities and busiest ports. Among its 169,054 residents, greater than twenty-five thousand free blacks created a viable mult-tiered community, unique in the South. Owners kept fewer than three thousand enslaved blacks in Baltimore, merely twelve percent of the total black population. Baltimore's black population was not home grown, as migrants (enslaved, free, and fugitive) made their way to the city from elsewhere in Maryland and the greater South. Whether or not John enjoyed previously established aquaintainces that city is not known. However, within ten days of his arrival there, he fled.
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