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Billy - VA-SHOE15

Title: Billy - VA-SHOE15
Identifier: VA-SHOE15
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Shoemakers
Source: Virginia Gazette
Date: July 29, 1775
Trade: Shoemaker
Enslaver: John Walker
Home Location: Albemarle County, Virginia; Virginia
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from John Walker
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: RUN away from the Subscriber, about the first of June last, a likely Virginia born Negro Man named BILLY, about 30 Years of Age, about 5 Feet 8 Inches high, has a Variety of Clothes, is very sensible, and by Trade a Shoemaker. I have heard of him in the Neighbourhood of Williamsburg .

JOHN WALKER .

ALBEMARLE, July 24, 1775.
gender: Male