The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon),
Williamsburg, December 4, 1766.

RUN away from the subscriber in Chesterfield, about the end of last August, a well set Negro man, of a black complexion, and about 25 years old; had on when he went away an osnabrug shirt, cotton jacket, and old rolls breeches, has been in the country about two years, can tell his master's name, but not the county. Whoever brings the said slave to me shall have 3 l. reward, if taken in the colony, and if out thereof 5 1. GEORGE BROWN.

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