Towsontown, Baltimore county, Md.
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About the same time that this advertisement came to hand a certain young
aspirant for Canada was entered on the Underground Rail Road Book thus:
"THOMAS EDWARD SKINNER, a bright mulatto, age eighteen years, well
formed, good-looking, and wide awake; says, that he fled from one G.H.
Carman, Esq., head Clerk of the County Court." He bore voluntary
testimony to Carman in the following words: "He was a very good man; he
fed and clothed well and gave some money too occasionally." Yet Thomas
had no idea of remaining in Slavery under any circumstances. He hated
everything like Slavery, and as young as he was, he had already made
five attempts to escape. On this occasion, with older and wiser heads,
he succeeded.
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