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Paul- JA-CAR9

Title: Paul- JA-CAR9
Identifier: JA-CAR9
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Jamaica Mercury
Date: March 1, 1780
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Alexander Forbes
Home: Montego Bay
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Alexander Forbes
Notes: Eboe Country
Transcription: Run away, last Tuesday afternoon, a Negro fellow of the Eboe country, named PAUL, a carpenter by trade, he is of a yellow cast, about 5 ft. 10 in. high, speaks very bad English, slender made and knock-kneed. He is supposed to be gone either to St. Mary or Saint Thomas in the Vale, in one of which parishes he was formerly purchased by the late Mr. ALEXANDER FORBES a carpenter in Trelawny, dec. Whoever apprehends the above fellow and will secure him in any gaol, so that the Subscriber may recover him again, shall be handsomely rewarded. Owing to his speaking English very bad, when he mentions his name, it would be understood he calls himself Palm, instead of Paul.
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