The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon),
Williamsburg, January 2, 1772.

RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, but looks older than he really is. He has been at Work in Norfolk for some Time past, and went by the Name of William Moore, as a Freeman. He is a very good Hostler and Gardener; and what may detect him sooner, he is very fond of Liquor, and when drunk very quarrelsome and saucy. Whoever will secure him in any Jail, and give me Intelligence so that I may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS, and if brought to me, FIFTEEN POUNDS, paid on Delivery of the Negro. JOHN WORMELEY.

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