Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Fifty Dollars Reward. Ran-Away from the Subscriber’s plantation, in Christ Church parish, a NEGRO MAN, named SAMBO ; but when he is absent calls himself SAM and sometimes GEORGE, about fortyfive years old, his head pretty gray, about five feet six, seven or eight inches high, in colour something like a dark mustizoe, the lower part of the his face very thin ; but his cheek bones high, branded on each side [pas of] his breast PW, the letters about half an inch long. SAMBO is an old offender, having been taken out of Winsborough gaol after an absence of seventeen years, and again out of Camden gaol about eighteen months ago.