Missouri Project Area Map

This database contains information about all types of freedom-seeking escapes from across Missouri and from selected "slave stampedes" from across the nation, but our main focal point and the designated project area of this initiative covers just over 40 counties in eastern Missouri.

List of Missouri counties from the main project area (with a quick summary of documented stampedes and escape episodes and links to more information):

• Adair 

• Audrain 

• Boone (4 escapes)

• Callaway (5 escapes)

• Camden

• Clark (1 escape)

• Cole (1 escape)

• Crawford (2 escapes)

• Dent

• Franklin (25 escapes)

• Gasconade (1 escape)

• Howard (1 stampede, 17 escapes)

• Iron (2 escapes)

• Jefferson (3 escapes)

• Knox

• Laclede

• Lewis (3 stampedes, 2 escapes)

• Lincoln (1 escape)

• Macon

• Maries

• Marion (2 stampedes, 4 escapes)

• Miller

• Monroe (1 escape)

• Montgomery (1 stampede, 3 escapes)

• Osage (4 escapes)

• Perry (4 escapes)

• Phelps

• Pike (2 escapes)

• Pulaski (1 escape)

• Putnam

• Ralls

• Randolph (2 escapes)

• Schuyler

• Scotland

• Shelby (1 escape)

• St. Charles (9 escapes)

• St. Francois (3 escapes)

• St. Louis (9 stampedes, 116 escapes)

• Ste. Genevieve (2 stampedes, 2 escapes)

• Warren (4 escapes)

• Washington (6 escapes)