Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Spanish-Town, January 9, 1812. RANAWAY from the subscriber, a young creole negro woman, named DELIA BROWN, formerly the property of miss Catherine Delaroche, lately resident at Black-River, about 5 feet 5 inches in height, no brand-mark, has the mark of a sever burn between her shoulders, which she generally conceals with an handkerchief, she is in pregnancy, and is supposed to be harboured about Black-River, her family belonging to mr. Miller, in that neighbourhood..