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‘Rocks in His Walking’
A White Slave by Another Name Escapes from the Slave Entrepot of New Castle Delaware
© 2017 James LaFond
NOV/19/17
March 7, 1771
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Christiana Bridge, February 13, 1771.
RUN away from the subscriber, last Sunday, a certain EDWARD McCOLGAN, born in Ireland, aged 32 or 33 years, about 5 feet 6 inches high, fresh coloured, has long blackish hair, a little marked with the smallpox, and rocks in his walking:
Had on, when he went away, a light grey napped duffil coat and waistcoat, bound and lined, tape the same colour as the coat, the waistcoat wore a good deal below his breast, light coloured cloth breeches, old blue yarn stockings, new shoes, one buckled with a broad brass buckle, the other tied with a leather string.
Whoever takes up and secures said servant, so that his master may have him again, if within the county of New Castle, [1] shall receive the sum of Forty Shillings, or out of said county, Three Pounds, and reasonable charges, upon delivering him to PATRICK McGONNEGAL. [2]
Notes
1. New Castle Delaware was the mid-Atlantic hub of white slavery from the 1710s
2. Increasingly, Irish were trafficked by other Irish as the years wore on in brutal Plantation America.
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