The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette or American Advertiser (Hayes),
Richmond, December 21, 1782.

Two Hundred Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, in Pittsylvania County, some time before the battle[?] of Guilford, two Negro men, Will and Cato. Will is about twenty-six years old, near six feet high, an outlandish fellow, thin visaged, clean made, and had rings in his ears. Cato is a small fellow, five feet six or seven inches high, this country-born, about thirty-five years old, one of his hips is higher than the other, bow-legged, has a lively walk, and his teeth are very long. I will give the above reward to any person who will deliver the said Negroes to me, or secure them so that I may get them again, or One Hundred Dollars for either. HARDEN PERKINS.

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