Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Five Dollars Reward. ABSENTED herself from her owner on the 17th instant, an African GIRL of the Gullah nation, named MARY, about 15 years of age, 4 feet 9 or 10 inches high, much marked with the small pox. Had on when she went off, an Osnaburg shirt, an old black petticoat and checked apron ; she is rather small in person.