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Bob/Peter- JA-CAR18, JA-SAW3

Title: Bob/Peter- JA-CAR18, JA-SAW3
Identifier: JA-CAR18, JA-SAW3
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Cornwall Chronicle
Date: May 28, 1784
Trade: Carpenter, Sawyer
gender: Male
Enslaver: Alex Ainsle
Home: Montego Bay
events: 1. Formerly emancipated by Excellancy Governor Campbell 2. Formerly enslaved by William Miller 3. Self-emancipated from Alex Ainsle
Transcription: American negro, Run away, from the Subscriber on Sunday night last, an American Negro named BOB, but is sometimes called PETER. He is a stout made fellow, about 5 ft. 10 in. high, 45 years of age, by trade a carpenter and sawyer, and is very remarkable being blind of one eye; speaks good English and may endeavour to pass for a free man, as he formerly had a manumission from his Excellency Governor Campbell, but has since been proved the property of WILLIAM MILLER, Kingston, from whom the Subscriber purchased him. Whoever will secure him in any gaol or workhouse, or deliver him to Mr. James Johnson, or the Subscriber, shall be liberally rewarded. ALEX. AINSLIE.
Type: Advertisement