Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Ten Dollars Reward. Absented herself on Wednesday last, my Negro WENCH, Charlotte, about 18 years of age, slender made, her complexion of a yellow cast, is well known in the city as a day-worker, par- ticularly in Beresford’s alley – has lately addicted herself to a drinking spirituous liquors; is a great street-walker, and can be met with, no doubt, on the wharf, or in Queen-street, being a haunt of hers every evening, till drum-beat. The above reward will be paid on delivering her to the master of the work-house, or to the subscriber.