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GLC06377.01

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GLC#
GLC06377.01
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
9 May 1860
Author/Creator
Duley, Enoch M., 1773-1864
Title
$200 Reward!
Place Written
Livingston County, Kentucky
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 27.3 cm, Width: 26.9 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Slavery & Anti-slavery

Offered for "my boy Manuel," a runaway slave described as 35 years old and enterprising. Includes a physical description: "He has a shrewd expression of the eye, and has a scar on one of his thighs occasioned from a burn, is well dressed and has in his possession a figured, plush carpetbag." Offers $200 if he is apprehended outside Kentucky and $50 if he is captured within the state. From the Duley family papers.

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