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Title
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Griper - COO34
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Identifier
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COO34
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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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February 24, 1767
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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 Croft
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Home
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Robert Croft's Plantation on the Santee River
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Home Location
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Berkeley County, South Carolina
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Events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Marmaduke Ball
2. Self-emancipated from Robert Croft
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on Santee, the first of last January, two negroes, a fellow and wench, named Griper and Grace. Griper is a likely, well made, strong negro, aboudt 5 feet 9 inches high, speaks good English, and is a very good cooper: He went off in a green jacket and breeches. Grace is a stout lusty wench, her remarkable large legs and feet, looking as if they were swelled: She went off in a green gown. They were purchased of Mr. Marmaduke Bell. It is imagined they may make for Augustine, or the back settlements. Whoevever will take up the said negroes, and deliver them to the warden of the workhouse in Charles-Town, or to me at Santee, shall receive forty pounds reward. And one hundred pounds to whoever will discover where they are harboured by a white person, and twenty pounds if by a negro, on conviction of the offender or offenders.
February 19, 1767,
ROBERT CROFT.
