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February 11, 1799

Broadside 1799 .G64 FF, Special Collections, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

An Advertisement for a Missing Slave Was Published

This broadside from Hanover County, is one of thousands of surviving advertisements, many of them published in newspapers, announcing rewards for the return of enslaved people who had runaway from their owners or masters.