Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Twenty Dollars Reward. Runaway from the subscriber, a Negro FELLOW, named JA- COB, about ve feet two or three inches high, and about thirty- ve or forty-years of age; but looks young for his age: He is a plausible, well spoken fellow; had on when he went away, a pair of blue negro cloth overalls, the other part of his dress not recollected: he is well known about Charleston as being lately the property of Mr. Daniel Cobia, and having worked for some time on Gadsden’s wharf.