Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

RANAWAY From the subscriber, his two Negro Boys, WILL and JIM. They are both well known on Charleston Neck and in the city, from their driving the cart in town with fodder and marketing- -Will is about 22 years of age, but very short, and has all the appearance of a boy of 15 or 16; he is very bushy headed, and had on when he went away, a homespun shirt and checked homespun trowsers. Jim is about 18, taller, but not so strong made as Will; has a mark on the upper part of his nose adjoi- ning his forehead, remarkably black, and about the size of a four-pence; had on when he went away, a blue cloth coatee and blue homespun trowsers.