Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

RUN AWAY from the suscriber (on the Eighteen Instant) a Negre man named Lowcanes, aged twenty-five Years, thin face, and remarkable long hair tied behind, about five feet ten inches high, speaks good french, no English, plays the Violin very well. He had on when he went off a light coat with a red cape to it, waistcoat and breeches: Whoever secures the said Negro man so that his Master may have him again shall have sixteen dollars reward, and charges from.