Joe Carroll (b. circa 1807 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050611
Part of large slave flight from Poolesville area, Montgomery County,
Maryland, 1831
Biography:
In September 1831, Joe Carroll fled his enslavement along with five
other slaves: Collin
Brooks, Tobias
Martin, Clem
Proctor, and the brothers Sandy
Swine and George
Swine. The slaveholder William
Vinson, whose farm stood in the Medleys District of Montgomery County, placed an advertisement in the
Daily National Intelligencer for the
fugitives' capture. He described Carroll as "about 24 years old, 5 feet 8 or 10 inches in
height, a square, stout built fellow, complexion not so dark as Collin's."1
Vinson added that all six wore clothing "usual to plantation hands this
season." These escapes
directly followed the Nat Turner rebellion in Virginia in August 1831.3
1. "150 Dollars Reward." Daily National Intelligencer 14 September 1831: 3.
2. Albert Bushnell Hart.
Slavery
and Abolition: 1831 to 1841 (New York and London: Harper & Brothers
Publishers, 1906) 218.
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