Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)


Josiah "Joe" Bailey (b. 1828 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-1535
Fled from slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1856

Sources:


Archival Sources -

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, William R. Hughlett, 1850, p 52, TA, Easton District, M 1501-2, MSA SM 61-147.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, William R. Hughlett, 1850, TA Slaves, Easton District, M 1506-4, MSA SM 61-173.


Newspapers and Journals -

"Two Thousand Six Hundred Dollars Reward," Baltimore Sun, 22 November 1856.

Richard A. Blondo. Samuel Green: A Black Life in Antebellum Maryland. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. University of Maryland, 1988.


Books -

Bentley, Judith. Dear Friend: Thomas Garrett and William Still, Collaborators on the Underground Railroad. New York: Cobblehill Books, 1997.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad:  A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc.  (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), pp. 272-274

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Leacock, Elspeth and Susan Buckley, Jouneys in Time: A New Atlas of American History, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.


Internet Sources -

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libaries: Documenting the American South.  "Harriet, the Moses of Her People, Bradford, Sarah H."
    http://docsouth.unc.edu/harriet/harriet.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libaries: Documenting the American South. "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, Bradford, Sarah H."
    http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bradford/bradford.html

Ancestry.com. United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, 1850, Talbot County, Maryland, p. 24.

Ancestry.com. United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, 1860, Talbot County, Maryland, Trappe, pp. 3-4.


Other -

You Are There: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Produced by Vern Diamond, Directed by Lloyd Richards. 22 min. CBS, 1971. Videocassette.


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