William Little (b. circa 1815 - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-001735
Escaped from Fell's Point, District 2, Baltimore City, Maryland,
1832
Biography:
Fugitives often fled during holidays and periods when their absences were more likely to go unnoticed. For example, Henry H. Smith and William Little, indentured apprentices, escaped from Fells Point in Baltimore on a Sunday in 1832, during a cholera epidemic. Their master, William Williams, placed runaway advertisements in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston newspapers the following day. He described Little as about seventeen years old, white, and with "a bald place in the fore part of his head."1
Smith and Little’s escape is a rare example of blacks and whites fleeing
together. While their fate remains unclear, running away as a pair increased
the risk of capture.
1. "$20
Reward." Daily National Intelligencer 20 September 1832.
1.
"Epidemics in Maryland." Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920. http://www.mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/index.cfm?action=epidemics.
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