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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06377.01 Author/Creator: Duley, Enoch M., 1773-1864 Place Written: Livingston County, Kentucky Type: Broadside Date: 9 May 1860 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 27.3 cm, Width: 26.9 cm Order a Copy

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.

Duley, Enoch M., 1773-1864

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