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Stepney - VA-SHOE12

Title: Stepney - VA-SHOE12
Identifier: VA-SHOE12
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Shoemakers
Source: Virginia Gazette
Date: July 22, 1772
Trade: Shoemaker
Enslaver: Joseph Bass
Home: Near Osborne's Warehouse
Home Location: Chesterfield County, Virginia; Virginia
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from Joseph Bass
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: RUN away from the Subscriber, in Chesterfield, near Osborne's Warehouse, on Wednesday Night the 7th Instant (July) a Negro Fellow named STEPNEY, near thirty Years old, about five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, very black, and spare made; he plays a little on the Fiddle, is a Shoemaker by Trade, and had the Misfortune, some Years ago, to have one of his great Toes cut off, which I believe to be that of the right Foot. I imagine he will make for North Carolina, and endeavour to pass for a Freeman, as he took his Shoemaker's Tools with him. Whoever brings or contrives him to me shall have FIFTY SHILLINGS if taken in the Colony, and FIVE POUNDS if out thereof.

JOSEPH BASS .
gender: Male