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Sam Smith - MS-MEC6

Title: Sam Smith - MS-MEC6
Identifier: MS-MEC6
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: September 19, 1848
Trade: Mechanic
gender: Male
Enslaver: Anthony Hoggatt
Home: Hoggatt's Plantation
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Anthony Hoggatt
Notes: Specifically a wood mechanic
Transcription: $50 REWARD. RANAWAY from my plantation, within two miles of Washington, Mi., a few days since, a Negro man named Sam Smith, aged about 38 years, upwards of 6 feet high, slender built, very black, a very slight piece cut off the upper tip of each ear, has good front teeth, wore whiskers when he left—is an excellent wood mechanic— he has a very impudent look, and when spoken to is rather slow in answering. The above reward will be paid for his apprehension and so securing him that I get him. ANTHONY HOGGATT. Natchez, Sept. 19, 1848.