Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Amby
MSA SC 5496-8038
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1857

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Dorchester County Circuit Court (Chattel Records), 1851-1860.

Newspapers and Journals -

Broadside - "300 Reward." Cambridge Democrat, 19 October 1857. Accessed via Enoch Pratt Free Library, Slave Documents Collection.

"300 Reward." Cambridge Democrat, 4 November 1857.

Books -

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

Still, William . Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1872.

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

Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, Maryland, District 4, pp. 9-10.

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, Dorchester County, Maryland, District 8, p. 3. 

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, Maryland, District 8, p. 8.

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census, Cayuga County, New York, Auburn Ward 3, p. 12.

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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