I knew I should have not been lazy and published the list of escaped slaves per state for 1850.

Only Florida and South Carolina were lower than Texas.

S.C. 16
Florida 18
Texas 20

The rest are...

Arkansas 21
Alabama 29
Mississippi 41
Missouri 60
North Carolina 61
Tennessee 70
Virginia 83
Georgia 89
Louisiana 90
Kentucky 96
Maryland made up 27% of the total escaped slave number for that year at 279.

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David Upton