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Sharper- JA-BUT2

Title: Sharper- JA-BUT2
Identifier: JA-BUT2
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Jamaica Mercury
Date: June 18, 1801
Trade: Butcher
gender: Male
Enslaver: Benjamin Whittaker
Home: Kingston
Transcription: Port-Royal, June 18, 1801. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, about five months since, a Negro Man Slave, named SHARPER, by trade a butcher, and well known about the beef-market in Kingston, having been in the habit of [inc] [selling] small stock there for several years: he is a creole of this island, about six feet high, his right hand lame; he is well known in Clarendon and the leeward parishes, having been accustomed to travel, to purchase stock; he is supposed to be harboured about Greenwich Road. A Half-Joe reward will be paid on lodging the said slave in any gaol or workhouse in this island; and a further reward of Ten Pounds on any person proving to conviction by whom harboured. BENJ. WHITTAKER.
Type: Advertisement