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Title
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Cuffee-NC-CAR24
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Identifier
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NC-CAR24
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Subject
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African Americans--History Carpenters
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Source
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Cape Fear Mercury
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Date
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August 7, 1775
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Trade
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Carpenter
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gender
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male
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Enslaver
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Cormelius Harnett
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homeLocation
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Wilmington, NC
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events
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1.Formerly ENSLAVED by ENSLAVER Job Howe. 2. Self- emancipated from ENSLAVER Cormelius Harnett.
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Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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August 7, 1775.
RUN away from the subscriber about ten days
ago, an old Negro man,named CUFFEE,
a carpenter; he formerly belonged to the
estate of Job Howe, senior,deceased
and is in general very well known.
Whoever apprehends and delivers him
to me,or the sheriff of New Hanover
county, shall receive a reward of forty shillings currency, and a
further reward of Forty shillings will be paid to any person
who will give information of his being
harboured by a Negro, and five pounds if by a white
person upon conviction of the offender
CORNELIUS HARNETT,
Wilmington, August 4, 1775.
