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Title
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Colbert - MS-BLA27
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Identifier
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MS-BLA27
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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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April 15, 1846
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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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William Dickson
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Home
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Dickson's Plantation
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from WIlliam Dickson
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Transcription
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD! RANAWAY, from my plantation, near Centre-ville, Amite Co., Mississippi, on Sunday morn-ing last, my negro boy named COLBERT, aged about 30 years, of copper colored complexion, and has some-what the appearance of an Indian ; hair long and nearly strait, which he generally keeps pretty well combed. He is about five feet six or seven inches high, stoutly built. When confused he is somewhat nervous and when conversing is very apt to stand on the outside of his feet. He is a blacksmith by trade and a pretty good engineer. Had on when he left an old Panama hat, black blanket coat, and cottonade pants. He stole from me a double-barrelled shot gun, with steel mounting and the jaw of the left hand ham-mer partly broken off. It is probable he is either with a white man or in company with two other yellow boys, with free passes, trying to make his way to a free State. One of the boys that he is supposed to be with is a mulatto boy of R. M. Austen, which was adver-tised in the Free Trader a week ago. I will pay the above reward of one hundred dollars if taken out of this State, or fifty dollars if taken within the State, and lodged in any jail so that I get him. april 15-4t WILLIAM DICKSON.
