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Title: Slave Reward Advertisements in The Philadelphia Gazette & Universal Daily Advertiser (July 24, 1797)
Description: 1797. 0 pp. No Binding. Good in original, complete newspaper, 4 pages, showing fading and horizontal and vertical folds with closed, short tears along the horizontal fold, creasing to upper corners. Especially noteworthy are 2 advertisements offering rewards for the capture/return of black men. One front-page notice, entitled "Run away" offers a $30 reward for the capture of Mark, "a black man" to be placed "in a gaol, so that his owner (?) could have him again." The man, Samuel Jones, lives in Lancaster County. Another ad on the back page offers a $10 reward for a "runaway" named James, "a black man" with a brief description of his appearance (including clothing) with the words "this country born" and that he "can read and write". To be returned to John Marsh of Woodbridge, New Jersey. Rare item. Good.

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