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Quaco- JA-WHEW3

Title: Quaco- JA-WHEW3
Identifier: JA-WHEW3
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Royal Gazette
Date: Feburary 23,1802
Trade: Wheelwright
gender: Male
Enslaver: Charles J. Colcock
events: Self-emancipated from Enslaver
Transcription: Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN-AWAY from the Subscriber on Sunday last, a Negro Man called QUACO, about six feet high, remarkable ugly, pitted deep with the small pox, very thick lips, a large and very flat nose, he is by trade a Wheelwright, and has often worked out in the city of Charleston, where he has a wife; he was dressed in blue negro cloth. An additional reward of Twenty Dollars, will be given on the conviction of any negro who shall harbor Quaco, and Sixty Dollars, on the conviction of any white man, who may harbor him. N. B. The Reward to be paid on his being delivered to the Master of the Work House, or to the subscriber. Charles J.Colcock. February 23.
Type: Advertisement