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Title
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James- JA-MAS5
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Identifier
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JA-MAS5
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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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Jamaica Mercury
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Date
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February 11 1780
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Trade
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Mason
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Robert Morgan
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Home
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St.Jago la vega
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Notes
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Mandigo Country/Sierra Leone
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Transcription
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Run away, from the Subscriber the undermentioned two Negro men slaves, the property of the Subscriber, one of them named TITUS, eloped the 21st of January, he is by trade a tailor, he was born at Barbados, and has been at the Grenades, was brought to Jamaica by Captain JOHN RUSSEL and sold by him to the Subscriber in 1778; he is slim made, about 5 ft. 6 in. high, and about 25 years of age, of a brownish complexion, and pitted with the smallpox; he has not brand- mark, and has a large scar on his right arm. He speaks good English and may attempt to pass for a free man, and probably may have forged papers, to impose upon some captain of a ship or vessel, and should he be onboard any of the ships which sailed in the last fleet, such captain is bound by the laws of this island, to send or bring him back to his lawful owner, on the pain and penalty inflicted by the said laws, which is no less than felony, without benefit of clergy; and whoever employs or harbours him after this public notice, may depend on being prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law, without distinction of persons. The other Negro is named JAMES, he eloped in June last; he is by trade a mason, and was then hired to BOWLER and HEWSON, masons in Kingston; is about 22 or 23 years of age, is very black and of the Mandingo country. He is marked on the shoulders MH or C H, supposed to be harboured in the parishes of Kingston or St. Andrew. Whoever will take up and secure one or both of said Negroes, and give notice thereof, shall be handsomely rewarded, by applying to ROBERT MORGAN.
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Type
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