Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Examples of Maryland Runaway Slave Advertisements with children

Here are some examples from a 1799 newspaper in Maryland (masthead below) of some front page slave advertisements looking for runaways, one is a child. These are very descriptive. There also was a advertisement for a runway horse (not shown) for ten dollars.







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