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Five Cents of Chattel
'Indentured, Black Boy’ in 1830
© 2017 James LaFond
JUL/31/17
Delaware Gazette and State Journal – Wilmington, Delaware, Friday January 29, 1830
Abraham W. Brown
5 Cents Reward
RANAWAY from the Subscriber, living in New Castle hundred, near the Red Lion Hotel, on Monday the 4th of January 1830, an indented black boy, [1] named ABRAHAM W. BROWN, goes by the name of Abe.
Had on when he went away a new drab cloth roundabout, drab trowsers, white yarn stockings, coarse lace boots and a new wool hat; took with him two domestic muslin shirts, and one drab bumbazette coatee. [2]
Said Boy is between the ages of 19 and 20. All persons are forbid harboring him at their peril. [3]
John D. Turner
January 19-4t
Notes
1. Clear proof that dispels the myth that all unfree blacks were slaves for life and that indenture “contracts” were a form of white privilege.
2. a thin plain or twill-woven worsted cloth with smooth finish used for dresses and coats
3. This is what finally brought slavery to an end, the fact that in a free range slave society every single person is enslaved, as all are liable to be called upon to capture the runaway [which now brings almost no reward] and are also at risk for felony prosecution for harboring a fugitive. There were charges of treason brought against upstanding citizens who merely declined to fight on the side of slave catchers.
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