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Cato - TAI14

Title

Cato - TAI14

Identifier

TAI14

Subject

African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans

Source

Royal Gazette

Date

March 27, 1782

Trade

Tailor

Gender

Male

Enslaver

Stephen Thomas

Home Location

South Carolina

Events

1. Self-emancipated from Stephen Thomas

Item Type

Advertisement

Transcription

Ten Guineas Reward. RUN away from me, a very likely negro fellow named CATO, a taylor by trade, about 23 years of age, commonly wears a light coloured coat with a double row plain white buttons, a brown waistcoat edged with white; he has five fingers on each hand. Any person delivering said negro to me or to the Warden of the Sugar- House shall receive ONE GUINEA reward, and the above reward of Ten Guineas to them that will give information of his being harboured by a white person or free negro, on conviction of the offenders, shall be paid by
STEPHEN THOMAS. N.B. All masters of vessels are forwarned from carrying him off.

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