Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

RAN AWAY On Monday night last, the Wench VIOLET, a tall stout Wench, about 35 years of age. She carried off her child about 20 months old, named Dennis; is supposed to be enticed and harbored by a gang of negroes in Wyatt’s lots, and in Meeting-street, nearly opposite, with whom her child was, when she went off.--She also has acquaintances on several of the islands, and up Santee, where she may attempt to go. The law will be strictly enforced if found to be harbored or carried off, on conviction of which, Twenty Dollars will be paid if by a free person, and Five if by any other, or on her being lodged in the Work-House.