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Adrian- JA-CAR61

Title: Adrian- JA-CAR61
Identifier: JA-CAR61
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Royal Gazette
Date: January 30,1801
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Charles Bernard
events: Self emancipated from Charles Bernard
Transcription: Milbank, Portland, Feb. 1, 1802. A REWARD of Five Pounds will be paif for each of the undermentioned Slaves now absent from their duty, to any person apprehending and lodging the same in any workhouse of this island, and giving information thereof to the subscriber: ADRIAN, a carpenter by trade, tall and well made, a very black skin, large nose, and a little pitted with the small-pox; he is very artful, and speaks exceeding good English: GEORGE, a carpenter also, thin made, and rather below the middle size, a smooth black skin, marked on the right shoulder CB, which he has been trying to obliterate: CUFFEE, a man-boy, marked CE on both shoulders and on the right breast. As the above negroes have been recently seen going about Kingston, a further reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid to any person proving to conviction by whom either of them is harboured. CHARLES BERNARD.
Type: Advertisement