all right let's go to the census and find colonel hollingsworth and there he is in exactly the right county with his 50 slaves so you begin to find the stories are quite reliable when you can check them against other sources from the time. also you can then with still's information and information of sydney howard gay you can go backback to the "baltimore sun" and find fugitive slave ads were the owner will put an ad in the newspaper, so-and-so has escaped, reward runaway, $100 for the person who will get him. it's a funny phrase. whoever can get him and bring back gets a hundred dollars. that's a good illustration of who owned them and their physical description. so you put the evidence together and you get a conference a picture. >> host: do we have in a sense how successful these people were who did escape to the north? other than someone like frederick douglass of course. >> guest: you know the problem is most of them just disappear from the records. some of them pop up in the canadian census. in 1861 there is a census in canada and the number of these fugitives are living there.

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i escape from colonel hollingsworth plantation in maryland and he owned 50 slaves. all right. let's go to the senses. dairy is in exactly the right county with this 50 slaves. you begin to find the slaves are quite reliable when you can check them against other sources of the time. you can with the information and go back to the "baltimore sun" and find fugitive slaves when the owner will actually put an ad in the newspaper. so-and-so has escaped. reward, ran away, reward. one hundred dollars for the person who can get him. that's a funny phrase. if anyone can get him and bring him back $100. that's a good illustration of who own them where they came from. you put all of these evidence together and get a pretty comprehensive picture. >> host: do we have any sense of how successful these people were who did escape to the north of baghdad douglas of course. >> guest: the problem is most of them disappear. some of them pop up in the canadian census in 1861 there is a census in canada and a number of fugitives either the mayor. they are recorded in ontario opposite of flow in your

here's a guy who said i escaped from colonel hollingsworth's plantation, and he owned 50 slaves. all right, let's go to the census and yeah, there he is in exactly the right county with his 50 slaves. so you begin to find these stories are actually quite reliable when you can check them against other kinds of sources from the time. with still's information and the information in gaye, you can go back to the baltimore sun and find fugitive slave ads where the owner will actually put in an ad in the newspaper so and so has escaped, reward, you know, ran away, reward $100 for the person who will get him. they always say -- a funny phrase -- if anyone can get him and bring back, $100. that's a pretty good illustration of where they came from, who owned them -- >> host: indeed. doing. >> and they often had physical descriptions. you put all these together and you get a comprehensive picture. >> host: do we have any sense how successful these people were who did escape to the -- aside from douglass, of course. >> guest: you know, the problem is most of them just disappear from the hist