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Joe - COO60

Title: Joe - COO60
Identifier: COO60
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
Source: South-Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser
Date: April 10, 1784
Trade: Cooper
Gender: Male
Enslaver: John Singellton
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from John Singellton
Home: John Singellton's Plantation
Home Location: Peedee, South Carolina
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: RAN AWAY From the Subscriber's Plantation at Pedee, THREE Negro Fellows, viz. JOE, a cooper, of a yellow complexion, and one fore-tooth out; is thought to be harbored in Bottle Alley. TOM, a black fellow, about 5 feet 9 inches high, plays the fiddle. JACK, a fisherman, has a wife in town. One Guinea will be given for each of them that is delivered to me at Peedee, with all reasonable charges.
JOHN SINGELLTON.
Charleston, 12th April 1784 .