Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Fifty Dollars Reward. PLENTY, a negro run-away from the Subscriber and going about with a ticket under pretence of looking for a master, having declared his intention not to return until he be shot, and there being in all probability no other method to cure him of the hostile disposition visibly increasing in him, having lately threatned [sic] the lives of several persons, and information being received of Plenty having twice made his escape through the indulgence of persons who out of reward for the master would not fire at him. The subscriber after returning thanks to all who may have missed him through the same motive, inform all who may come up with him, that from several symptoms he has reason to think him a negro dangerous even to the safety of this state, too many of the neighbors having already experienced his abilities in plundering, and nothing but an opportunity is wanted to confirm that the apprehension above stated is founded on good grounds, he therefore thinks himself just fiable in offering the same reward of fifty dollars, for securing him whether by shooting or otherwise, less he be mortally wounded, in which case only one half of the reward will be paid.