Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Twenty Dollars Reward Ran-Away from the Subscriber’s plantation, on Stoney Creek, Pocotaligo, on the 15th January last; a NEGRO MAN, named TOM, but calls himself Tom Dunham and Tom Price, occasionally; he is about four feet seven or eight inches high, likely and well made, a pleasing countenance, wears his hat generally on one side of head [pas d’article dans le texte], one of his eyes rather red, speaks good English – he is in the habit of hiring himself on board of vessels as a labourer. The above reward will be paid to any person who will prove that any white person hires or harbors him, and Five Dollars will be paid to those who will lodge him in the Work House, or deliver him to PETER CROFT, Factor, Prioleau’s Wharf, or to the Subscriber at Hampstead. S.