Virginia Runaways: Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers.
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Professor Thomas Costa, University of Virginia's College at Wise

Virginia Gazette
(Hunter), Williamsburg ,
October 6, 1752.

    October 5, 1752. RAN away from the Subscriber, at Berkley, in Charles-City County; a Mulatto Fellow, named Aaron, about 5 Feet eight Inches high, Virginia-born, faulters much when he speaks; he pretends to be in Search of Horses, by which Means he has got far in the Country on his Way to the Mountains. Whoever will apprehend and deliver him to me, shall receive Two Pistoles Reward if taken within 20 Miles of Home, Four if at a greater Distance.
Benjamin Harrison.

   Reprint: Windley, vol. 1, pp. 29-30.

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