Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Twenty Dollars Reward RAN-AWAY from the subscriber’s plantation about a league and a half below the city, a mulatto man, named GEORGE, about five feet, eight inches high, limps very much in one leg, occasioned by a burn he got when young under his knee ; about twenty-six years of age.—Also, a negro man named JACK, about twenty-two years of age, five feet five inches high, has an iron on one leg and a swelling under one of his ears. They rode away a black stud horse and a light sorrel four year old mare, with white face. Whoever will apprehend said runaways shall receive the above reward, or ten dollars for either.