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Ad for Runaways from Jordan’s Saline, July 4, 1863

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Title

Ad for Runaways from Jordan’s Saline, July 4, 1863

Description

An advertisement mentioning five slaves who have run away from Jordan’s Saline. Internal evidence suggests they were “refugeed” into the state by white enslavers from Missouri and Mississippi.

Creator

Clarksville Standard, vol. 20, no. 9, July 4, 1863

Publisher

This item was clipped from a digital image published by thePortal to Texas History. Published here by W. Caleb McDaniel

Date

July 4, 1863

Rights

This item is believed to be in the public domain. No copyright in the item is asserted or implied by its publication here.

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TIFF

Type

Text

Identifier

516CCDEF-D7BA-4167-8145-A16ABCF10933

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$100 Reward.

Runaway from Jordan’s Saline,

–C—

I will give the above reward for the apprehension and delivery or to have apprehended & placed in any Jail so that I can get him. A runaway negro of the following discription [sic] viz;

Black color 5 feet 8 or 9 inches heavy set weighs about two hundred pounds—said negro was brought from Missouri to Texas.

JAS. S. MOORE
Bonham Texas

N. B.—Said, negro runaway from Jordons Saline company with four other negroes belonging to John Anderson late from Mississippi.