Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Twenty Dollars Reward. Absented himself from Cedar Grove Plantation, St. John’s Parish, on the 10th of June last, an AFRICAN FELLOW, whose country name is Counco, but will answer to the name of DICK ; he is about five feet seven or eight inches high, pretty stout and a little round shouldered, round visage, thick flat nose, his fore teeth are filed and has his country marks on each side of his nose — had on when he went away, an old blue jacket, much faded, a check shirt and oznaburg trowsers.