Amanda Ennets (b. 1856 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8746
Fled from Slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland 1860

Biography:
At age four, Amanda Ennets successfully escaped from Dorchester County, Maryland with her mother, Maria, her father, Stephen, and her siblings, Harriet aged six years and an infant aged three months.  While they were slaves in Dorchester County, the Ennets family was split between two owners.  Stephen was the property of John Kaiger, while Maria and the children were the slaves of Algier Pearcy.

The Ennets family escaped with the direction of Harriet Tubman, this successful attempt was her last "trip" to Maryland, as supported by a letter written from
Thomas Garrett to William Still on December 1, 1860.

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