Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Five Dollars Reward. Ranaway from the subscriber, about three weeks ago, a WENCH named MANEMIA, but more frequently called Amelia; about ve feet six inches high, thirty six years old, she is tolerable dark colored, at nose, speaks in a soft low voice, one of her ears has been cut from boring for earrings, which she conceals under her handkerchief, but when the handkerchief is taken off, the cut part of her ear somewhat resembles an old fashioned ear drop of the largest kind. She was raised on the Plantation of Mr.