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Title
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Jim - MS-BLA4
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Identifier
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MS-BLA4
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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The Mississippi Free Trader
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Date
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December 11, 1817
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Trade
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Blacksmith
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Clement Nash Read, previously Joseph Clark
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from Clement Nash Read
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Transcription
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25 Dollars Reward. HAVING purchased a negro man named JIM, a blacksmith by trade, from Mr. Joseph Clark, and the said Jim being now a runaway, I will give twenty-five dollars to any person, either a white person or negro, who will bring the said boy to me, or place him in any jail so that I get him again ; Should the negro voluntarily return home I will give him ten dollars. In either case he shall not be punished, but shall be treated as indu[?]tly as any negro could wish. CLEMENT NASH READ. Washingnton 11th December 1817 —27.
