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Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century
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RUN AWAY,
From Dent in Yorkshire, on Monday the 28th of Aug last. THOMAS ANSON, a Negro Man, about five Feet six Inches High, aged 20 Years or upwards, and broad set. Whoever will bring the said Man back to Dent, or give any Information that he may be had again, shall receive a handsome Reward from Mr. Edmund Sill of Dent, or Mr. David Kenyon, Merchant in Liverpool.
| ID: | r0641 |
| Newspaper title: | Williamson’s Liverpool Advertiser and Mercantile Register |
| Newspaper region: | North West England |
| Country: | England |
| Newspaper date: | 8 September 1758 |
| Runaway date: | 28 August 1758 |
| Page number: | 3 |
| Institution: | Liverpool Library (Liverpool) |
| Given name: | Thomas |
| Given surname: | Anson |
| Also known as: | - |
| Racial descriptor: | Negro |
| Origin: | - |
| Age: | >20 |
| Gender: | male |
| Height: | 66 |
| Physical characteristics: | broad set |
| Disease: | - |
| Injuries: | - |
| Physical scars: | - |
| Country marks: | - |
| Plantation marks: | - |
| Personality: | - |
| Language: | - |
| Stutters: | |
| Literacy: | - |
| Religion: | - |
| Motivation: | - |
| Skills: | - |
| Specified occupation: | - |
| Clothing: | - |
| Accused of crime: | no |
| Warning notice: | no |
| Ran from ship: | |
| Ran from region: | North East England |
| Ran from specified: | Dent in Yorkshire |
| Destination (region): | - |
| Destination (specified): | - |
| Companions: | - |
| Owner: | - |
| Owner occupation: | - |
| Owner address: | - |
| Name of contact: | Mr. Edmund Sill; Mr. David Kenyon |
| Contact occupation: | - ; Merchant |
| Contact address: | Dent; Liverpool |
| Value pounds: | |
| Value shillings: | |
| Value pence: | |
| Total value: | - |
| Reward pounds: | |
| Reward shillings: | |
| Reward pence: | |
| Other reward: | a handsome Reward |
| Total reward: | a handsome Reward |
| Ad repeated in other newspapers: | yes |
| Ad repeated: | ibid. - 15th September, 1758. |
| Amended advert: | |
| Notes: | Thanks to Laurence Westgaph for the image for this advertisement. |
