#runaway ads

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Self-Emancipated Luke

Based on the other typos here, I think Lyhe in the first runway ad is Luke in the second ad. If they are in fact the same person, Luke, working as a carpenter, passed for free for several years and was captured and placed in the Essex County Jail in 1771. When pressed, he said he belonged to Moses Allman (not my Moses) of Isle of Wight County.

The next year Luke got away again. This second ad mentions belonging to Lewis Allman of Isle of Wight and that we was a carpenter who passed as free until condemned by the Essex Court. This ad forbade any vessels from carrying him away from the Colony, but I hope he got away.

I hope I run into Luke in MY own research.

Source: 

Virginia Gazette (Rind), Williamsburg, August 8, 1771.

Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon), Williamsburg, September 3, 1772.

Found at The Geography of Slavery in Virginia http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/index.html

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“Stop the Runaway,” Andrew Jackson urged in an ad placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804. ... Jackson, who would become the country’s seventh commander in chief in 1829, promised anyone who captured this “Mulatto Man Slave” a reward of $50, plus “reasonable” expenses paid. Jackson added a line that some historians find particularly cruel. It offered “ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred.”

Trump said Jackson had “a big heart.” Right....

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