The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette (Rind),
Williamsburg, November 11, 1773.

RUN away from the subscriber, in Williamsburg, an English servant named SAMUEL JOHNSON, a baker, of thin visage, a little round shouldered, has dark brown hair, tied behind, and had on a light coloured cloth coat and jacket, blue breeches, much dusted with flour, a black handkerchief round his neck, and his hat cocked pretty long before. He is subject to liquor, and very fond of talking and singing when drunk. Whoever brings the said servant to me, or secure him in any public gaol, so that I get him again, shall receive a reward of forty shillings. All masters of vessels are forewarned from carrying him out of the colony. JOHN DRAPER.

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