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Hercules - COO1

Title

Hercules - COO1

Identifier

COO1

Subject

African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage

Source

South Carolina Gazette

Date

October 28, 1732

Trade

Cooper

Gender

Male

Enslaver

Robert Hume

Home

Robert Hume's Plantation

Home Location

St. James Parish, Goose Creek, South Carolina

Events

1. Self-emancipated from Robert Hume

Item Type

Advertisement

Transcription

RUN away from his Master’s Plantation, in the Parish of St. James’s Goose-Creek, a lusty Negro Man named Hercules, he formerly used to wait on his Master in Charlestown, & is now by Trade a Cooper. He had on when he went away a blue Duffils Jacket, a pair of ozenbrig Breeches, and speaks very good English. Whoever apprehends and brings him either to the said plantation in Goose-Creek, or to his master Robert Hume on Charlestown Neck, shall receive 5 Ł reward, besides the usual Allowance for mileage. Robert Hume.

Files

Hercules - COO1 - SC gazette 10-28-1732 p3.JPG

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Citation

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