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Title
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March-NC-CAR27
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Identifier
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NC-CAR27
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Subject
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African Americans--History Carpenters
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Source
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Wilmington Gazette
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Date
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May 12, 1812
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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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A.F Macneil
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homeLocation
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Wilmington, NC
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events
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1.Self-emancipated from ENSLAVER A.F. Macneil on BOAT in Elizabethtown. 2. Passed for a man.
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Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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This craftsperson is listed twice, becuase his second advertisement provides more information on his skill.He also can read and write.
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Transcription
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Fifty Dollars Reward. ESCAPED from on board a Fayetteville boat at Elizabethtown, in irons, my Negro MARCH, lately apprehended and confined in Hillsborough jail--He is by trade a Carpenter; can read and write; pretends to be a great religionist, which he uses as a cloak to his designs; says he is a free man; is about 5 feet seven inches high, and his lower teeth project beyond the upper. The above reward will be given to any person who apprehend the said March and deliver him to me in Wilmington, together with all reasonable expences of travelling paid. A.F. MACNEIL. August 25.
