Alexandria (VA) Gazette, "Slave Stampede," November 26, 1855

                           Slave Stampede.

        The Norfolk Argus states that last week about eighteen negroes escaped from that city and Portsmouth. They were all young, and some of them skillful mechanics, valued at $2,000 each. Six were from Portsmouth. It is supposed that they left in some oyster vessel, loading perhaps in Tanner's creek, and bound from New York or some other Northern port.