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(Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in ''VA and SC Gazette'', 1737-1745)
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I think it's cool and interesting that a lot of the escapes occured in groups of threes. I don't know if this is possible, but it would be really interesting to learn about thier stories. For instance, how they planned their escape, if they ever got caught, and if they stuck together once they escaped. - Jake Guralnik
 
I think it's cool and interesting that a lot of the escapes occured in groups of threes. I don't know if this is possible, but it would be really interesting to learn about thier stories. For instance, how they planned their escape, if they ever got caught, and if they stuck together once they escaped. - Jake Guralnik
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I noticed that each state had different incentives, such as South Carolina tended to give monetary rewards and Virginia offered pistols.  Did most other colonies tend to give monetary rewards or did it dramatically differ between individual colonies or even the counties within the colonies?  Also, were the rewards given in each colony dependent on the punishment in that colony for runaway slaves?  I have to agree with Dani that I found the pistols a very intriguing incentive for people to turn in run away slaves.  Quincey Garcia
  
 
== Alexander Thomson, A Scottish immigrant writes new from America, 1774 ==
 
== Alexander Thomson, A Scottish immigrant writes new from America, 1774 ==

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