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Title
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Hercules - COO1
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Identifier
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COO1
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
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Source
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South Carolina Gazette
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Date
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October 28, 1732
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Type
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Advertisement
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Trade
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Cooper
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Robert Hume
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Transcription
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RUN away from his Master’s Plantation, in the Parish of St. James’s Goose-Creek, a lusty Negro Man named Hercules, he formerly used to wait on his Master in Charlestown, & is now by Trade a Cooper. He had on when he went away a blue Duffils Jacket, a pair of ozenbrig Breeches, and speaks very good English. Whoever apprehends and brings him either to the said plantation in Goose-Creek, or to his master Robert Hume on Charlestown Neck, shall receive 5 Ł reward, besides the usual Allowance for mileage. Robert Hume.
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Home
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Robert Hume's Plantation
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from Robert Hume
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homeLocation
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St. James Parish, Goose Creek, South Carolina
