Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Absented himself, FROM the Subscriber, on the 27th instant, a very likely African Young LAD, of the Foolah nation, apparently about seventeen or eighteen years of age, of a light black complexion, with hair finer than common to Negroes. He is of a slim make and has lost the middle one of his lower teeth ; he answers to his country name Demba ; when he went away he had silver ear rings in his ears and wore a striped nankeen round jacket and trowsers of Russia sheeting ; he went away with two other young Fellows of his nation, who were since apprehended near the Ten Mile House, Goose Creek Road. Whoever will deliver him to me, at No.