Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. Run away from the subscribers Plantation, about the middle of February last, a negro man named SAM. He is about 28 years of age, a carpenter by trade, near 5 feet high, stoops a little and stammers in his speech when first spoken to; he ran away about two years ago and was taken opposite Sullivan’s Island, on the Main; it is probable he is on Sullivan’s Island or in Charleston--A further reward of Ten Dollars will be paid on conviction of his being harbored by a white person, and Five Dollars if by a black.