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Title
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Bob - SAW24
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Identifier
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SAW24
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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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South Carolina Gazette
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Date
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May 3, 1760
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Type
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Advertisement
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Trade
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Sawyer
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Thomas Elfe
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Transcription
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A NEGRO Fellow named BOB, formerly the Property of Luke Stoutenburgh, Esq; and was bought at the Sale of Joseph Poule's Estate; he is a good Plowman, Sawyer, and Driver, which he has been used to; is a thin black Fellow, very hairy about the Breast, and had on a brown Negro Cloth Jacket and Breeches with Brass Buttons, an Oznabrug Shirt, green Negro cloth Boots, and is supposed to be gone to Winyah : He has a Brother at Mr. Thomas Broughton's at Goose-Creek. Whoever takes up the said Fellow and delivers him to me in Charles-Town shall have TEN POUNDS Rewards and all reasonable Charges.
Thomas Elfe
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events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Luke Stoutenburgh, Esq.
2. Formerly enslaved by Joseph Poole
3. Self-emancipated from Thomas Elfe on January 26, 1760
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homeLocation
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Charleston, South Carolina
