Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

120 Dollars Reward RAN AWAY from the subscriber in the month of February last, a negro fellow, named GEORGE, between twenty five and twenty eight years of age, five feet ten or eleven inches high, not real black, thick set and remarkably well made, somewhat awkward about business, on examination of his back will be found about one dozen marks of the whip, he has an impediment (by a lisp) in his speech ; the said fellow has been seen since he ranaway in the Cotile settlement, & the subscriber has pretty strong reasons to believe his negro has been for some time harboured in the said settlement, but expects he will be, if not already, run off clandestinely by some person, for the purpose of making sale of him.— Therefore 100 DOLLARS REWARD will be given for apprehending and bringing to justice such villain or villains so employed in harbouring or secretly conveying away said slave, and TWENTY DOLLARS and all legal charges paid for securing said negro so that his master may get him again. James Griffing Rapide Parish, Cotile. November 24.