Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Committed to the Work-House, ON Monday the 29th ult. on assumption of robbery, and supposed to be a run-away, a NEGRO MAN, apparently about thirty years of age, about five feet ten or elevn inches in height, yellowish complexion. On his being first apprehended, he said his name was JAMES WILLIS ; that he was a free man, and was from the state of Virginia ; that he had passed though the town of Columbia, about two or three weeks past, on his way to Charleston, [sic] Since he has been confined, he says that he is a slave, and belongs to Mr.