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Unnamed Jamaican Carpenter- JA-CAR17

Title: Unnamed Jamaican Carpenter- JA-CAR17
Identifier: JA-CAR17
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Cornwall Chronicle
Date: September 10, 1783
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: James Jacks
Home: Savanna La Mar
events: 1. Self-emancipated from James Jacks
Notes: America born
Transcription: Run away, from the Subscriber about 12 months ago, a [creole] Negro woman named MARGARET. She is about 5 ft. 8 in. high, and pitted with the smallpox. She went off with a Negro fellow [MAN], her husband, a carpenter by trade, and are both Americans born. She may endeavour to pass for a free woman, as she has in her possession an American Ticket. Whoever takes up said wench and secures her, so that I may recover her, shall be entitled to a reward of ten Pounds. JAMES JACKS.
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