Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Absented himself FROM the Subscriber’s Plantation on the Wateree river, five miles above Camden, a NEGRO MAN SLAVE, named GEORGE, about 27 years old, and about 5 feet 9 inches high, country born, speaks slowly and distinctly, appears at first sight somewhat dull and simple, but is in fact a sinsible [sic] cunning fellow ; his ears are bored, for wearing rings in them. He is something of a House Painter, and also a Black-smith, and belonged some time past to Mr. Alexander Gardner, of Charleston ; and afterwards to colonel Adam McDonald, of Santee.