The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser (Davis),
Richmond, January 16, 1793.

THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD. THE above reward shall be paid to the person who shall deliver to me, a negro woman, named ALICE, of a tawney complexion, somewhat upwards of thirty years of age, rather short, strait in her shoulders, and upon the whole well looking.---She absconded from my plantation on which Charles H. Graves lives, near this town, in June 1791, and from strong circumstances, she has been harboured in or near Williamsburg, and at least much aided in being secreted by her husband, who lives at Mr. Devenport's in Williamsburg. HUGH NELSON. York-Town, January 7, 1793.

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