Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

May 21, 1814 ONE HUNDRED PISTOLES REWARD Runaway in the night of the 3rd April, a Mulatto Slave, named HARRIET, alias MARIA MARTINI BELMOT, alias YATCHIE, a native of Curacoa, but speaks good English, 24 years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches high, round face, lost an upper front tooth, small breasts, and wears two long ringlets of hair down her forehead, which at times she puts behind her ears. She is very artful, will attempt to pass as free, and get off the island; she formerly belonged to Mr. Delaney, in Kingston, where she is well known.