Beginning Date
Saturday, December 15, 1855
Starting Point
Description
Sometime in December 1855, some 40 enslaved people escaped in a "stampede" from Natchez, Mississippi. According to the Memphis, Tennessee Appeal, suspicions ran high that the freedom seekers "were carried off by some up-river boat, in the hands of Abolitionists of negro thieves." But the mode of escape, or ultimate fate of the freedom seekers remains unknown.
Escape Attributes
Escape Numbers
40
Outcomes
Outcome
Unknown