The Geography of Slavery

Norfolk Herald (Willett and O'Connor),
Norfolk, April 20, 1797.

COMMITTED to Norfolk county jail, on the 18th inst. the following Negroes, to wit, JACK, about sixty years of age, and about five feet ten inches high. DINAH, a women about five feet three inches high, and about 50 years of age. They are both of a dark complexion, and say that they belong to Henry Viverit of Edgecomb county in North Carolina. The owner is desired to prove property, pay charges, and take them away. Jonathan Williamson, jailor.