75km
50miles
50miles
Philadelphia
8
Wilmington
7
Smyrna
6
Dover
5
Milford
4
Poplar Neck
3
East New Market
2
Bucktown
1
The Dover Eight's journey began in Maryland and then through Delaware. The riskiest legs were through these slave states. They crossed the Mason–Dixon line into a free state at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The route provided by Harriet Tubman was 1) Bucktown, 2) East New Market, 3) Poplar Neck, 4) Milford, Delaware, 5) Dover, 6) some went through Smyrna to get to Wilmington, 7) Wilmington to 8) Philadelphia, followed by points north along the Underground Railroad to Canada.
The route provided by Harriet Tubman was 1) Bucktown, 2) East New Market, 3) Poplar Neck, 4) Milford, Delaware, 5) Dover, 6) some went through Smyrna to get to Wilmington, 7) Wilmington to 8) Philadelphia, followed by points north along the Underground Railroad to Canada.
The Dover Eight refers to a group of eight black people who escaped their slaveholders of the Bucktown, Maryland area around March 8, 1857.[1] They were helped along the way by a number of people from the Underground Railroad, except for Thomas Otwell, who turned them in once they had made it north to Dover, Delaware. There, they were lured to the Dover jail with the intention of getting the $3,000 reward for the eight men. The Dover Eight escaped the jail and made it to Canada.