Bob - VA-BLA4

Item

Title
Bob - VA-BLA4
Identifier
VA-BLA4
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, African American blacksmiths
Source
Virginia Gazette
Date
April 23, 1772
Trade
Blacksmith
Enslaver
Robert Walker
Home Location
Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Virginia
Events
1. Self-emancipated from Robert Walker
Item Type
Advertisement
Transcription
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie , on Tuesday the 14th Instant ( April ) a Negro named BOB, about twenty three Years of Age, five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, by a Trade a Blacksmith, every dark and this visaged. Whoever apprehends the said Slave, and bring him to me, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, if he is taken in Virginia , and THREE POUNDS if taken in Carolina , besides what the Law allows.

ROBERT WALKER .
gender
Male
Item sets
Blacksmiths