BCDA (Objects) · Plato- MD-CAR5, MD-COO3, MD-SAW2

Plato- MD-CAR5, MD-COO3, MD-SAW2

Title: Plato- MD-CAR5, MD-COO3, MD-SAW2
Identifier: MD-CAR5, MD-COO3, MD-SAW2
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenter, Cooper, Sawyer
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: January 23, 1783
Trade: Carpenter, Cooper, Sawyer
gender: Male
Enslaver: Gassaway Rawlings
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Gassaway Rawlings
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: January 20, 1783.
RAN away from the subscriber, living in Anne-Arundel county, near South river ferry, on the 24th of December 1782, a likely dark mulatto negro man named PLATO, 24 years of age, about 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high, he is a good carpenter, cooper, and sawyer by trade, he is a little near kneed; had on when he went away, a crocus shirt, white country cloth jacket and breeches, coarse yarn stockings, a coarse pair of shoes, with four soles to each, and a straw hat, he carried with him several other cloaths, it is supposed that he will try to pass for a freeman. Whoever takes up said negro, dead or alive, and brings him home, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall be entitled to receive twenty Spanish dollars for their trouble.
GASSAWAY RAWLINGS.