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Title
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Nelly - MS-COOK3
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Identifier
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MS-COOK3
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Source
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The Mississippi Free Trader
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Date
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November 20, 1817
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gender
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Female
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Enslaver
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I. H. White
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Home
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White's Plantation
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from I. H. White
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Notes
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Benjamin Bridges helped Nelly self-emancipate; hand written marking on this advertisement
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Transcription
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FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN-AWAY from the subscriber on the 4th of October last, a Negro Woman named NEL-LY, about 33 years of age, stout built, has lost the fourth finger of her right hand, has been accustom-ed to cooking : She was enticed from the planta-tion of the subscriber by a white man who passes by the name of Benjamin Bridges, a stout well-looking man, about 30 years of age, is something of a carpenter, and has lived sometime in the Tom-bigby country. Any person apprehending and delivering the said Negro to the subscriber at his Plantation, will receive FIFTY DOLLARS reward, provided she is taken fifty miles from Natchez, and all reasonable charges; the same reward will be given if secured in any jail, sot hat I get her a-gain. One hundred Dollars will be paid for the apprehension of the person that has stolen her, to be paid on conviction. I. H. WHITE. November 20, 1817, 25
