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Title
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Prosper - CAR79, BRIL21
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Identifier
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CAR79, BRIL21
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
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Source
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South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal
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Date
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July 4, 1769
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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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Benjamin Trapier
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Home
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Benjamin Trapier's plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina
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Home Location
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Georgetown, South Carolina
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Events
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1. Self-emancipated from Benjamin Trapier
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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Prosper is also known as James or John
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Transcription
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RUN AWAY from the subscriber, the 30th of June last, a mustee follow, named PROSPER : but calls himself James , and sometimes John , a bricklayer and jobbing carpenter by trade; is about five feet ten inches high, thin visage, a little round shouldered, generally wears a large head of curled hair, has been lately branded in his right chock R, but it now only appears as a scar; had on when he went away a negro cloth jacket turned up with blue, with breeches and boots of the same, and petticoat trowsers, took with him an oznabrug and checked shirt; he has lately been seen in Charles-Town, where he formerly lived, and in which place he is, with good reason, believed to be harboured.— Whoever will apprehend and deliver the said fellow to me at George-Town, to Mr. John Cogdell, Factor, in Charles-Town, or to the warden of the work-house shall receive TWO GUINEAS reward, and reasonable charges.
