(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RUNAWAY) One Hundred Dollars Reward

Sale 2204 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 3,120

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RUNAWAY.) One Hundred Dollars Reward . . . Absconded . . . Negro James. Runaway slave poster, 10x8 inches, mounted at an early date to a piece of cardboard; paper evenly toned. Maryland, 1813

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Describes the runaway as "About 22 years old, very small for his age, perhaps not more than four feet six inches high, strong and active, stout legs, dark mottled skin; had on, when he absconded, round about pantaloons of country made cloth, cotton worp and wool filling, slightly fulled and dyed, apparently brown or mixed the worp not taking the dye, and the yarn apparently brown, coarse shoes and stockings. James has been accustomed to house work and is an excellent waiter . . . Isaac Duckett, December 27, 1813."