# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 02 May, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 02 May, 2026 at 11:30 am (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for the story of Thomas Smallwood, a freed man who helped hundreds escape slavery and named the Underground Railroad.About this EventHosted by Civic Works and presented by Scott Shane, journalist and author of Flee North, for a talk about the self-educated shoemaker in the nation’s capital, Thomas Smallwood, who enabled hundreds of enslaved people to escape North to freedom. In Smallwood’s time, Baltimore was, for the enslaved, a shipping port to hard labor-unto-death in the deep south. But Smallwood and others used Baltimore safe houses and Maryland’s countryside to direct people to the free states and Canada. Mr. Shane will tell us how Smallwood and his collaborators did it.Mr. Shane will have copies of his book F, onsite and available for purchase.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baltimore/flee-north-a-forgotten-hero-and-fight-for-freedom-in-slavery’s-borderland/100001985329312417
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Baltimore
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Clifton Mansion
- **lat**: 39.32087569999999
- **long**: -76.58603269999998
- **full address**: Clifton Mansion, 2701 St Lo Dr, Baltimore, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland being held?
  - **A:** Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland takes place on Sat, 02 May, 2026 at 10:00 am to Sat, 02 May, 2026 at 11:30 am at Clifton Mansion, 2701 St Lo Dr, Baltimore, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland?
  - **A:** Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland is organized by Civic Works.

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