Caroline Landick (b. circa 1807 - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-050598
Fled her enslavement near Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland,
1830
Biography:
Twenty-three-year-old Caroline Landick fled her
enslavement on December 28, 1830. In January, Sarah
Duvall placed an advertisement
in the Daily National Intelligencer for the runaway slave.1
She offered a ten-dollar reward if Landick were captured within ten miles
of Rockville, twenty if in the District of Columbia, and thirty if outside
these locales. Duvall described Landick as "well formed, a dark yellow complexion;
when spoken to, she speaks short, with a grim and down look. No other marks
recollected, only some scars on her shoulders below the hem [collar] of
her dress," evidence that Landick was likely the victim of whipping.
When Landick escaped, she wore a straw hat, a cotton dress, and a yellow,
white, and blue striped dress made of linsey, a tough woolen or linen cloth.
She also took a variety of clothing that Duvall could not describe. Duvall
added that Landick would probably assume a different name to hide her identity.2
1. "$30 Reward." Daily National Intelligencer 8 January 1831. Maryland State Archives.
2. Arnold J. Cooley. A Dictionary of English
Language (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1861) 361.
Ellen Pahl, ed. The Quilters
Ultimate Visual Guide (Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, Inc., 1997) 262.
Researched and written by Rachel Frazier, 2010.
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