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Sambo - VA-CAR6

Title: Sambo - VA-CAR6
Identifier: VA-CAR6
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source: Virginia Gazette
Date: August 18, 1768
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Mark Jackson
homeLocation: Ameilia, Virginia
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Mark Jackson
Type: Advertisement
Transcription: RUN away from the subscriber, in Amelia , in the year 1766, a black Virginia born Negro fellow, named SAMBO, about 6 feet high, about 32 years old, and bends in one of his knees, but which I cannot tell. He makes fiddles, and can play upon the fiddle, and work at the carpenters trade. I have heard that he passes for a free fellow. Whoever brings the said Negro to me shall have 10l. reward.

MARK JACKSON .