Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Ten Dollars Reward. RAN-AWAY, SAM and JEMY; Sam is a coachman and well known in the dram shops, he is a very fair mulatto and may attempt to pass for a white man; is about five feet six inches high; had on a round blue jacket, with black velveret cape fustian under jacket, and blue striped cotton pantaloons, grey coloured great coat, with a black glazed hat and silver cord and tassel round it. Jemy is about five feet six inches high, of a slender make, and smooth skin, by trade a blacksmith; had on a white woollen round jacket and pantaloons, a little the worse for wear; Five Dollars Reward for each will be paid for lodging either of them in the Work House.