Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Slave Runaway: Celia Jackson


ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD – Ran away from my house on the 25th April 1864, my negro woman CELIA JACKSON.  She is forty-five or fifty years of age.  She has been hiring herself out in Rocketts as a washer woman.  I will pay the above reward if she she be delivered to Grady’s jail, corner Fifteenth and Cary streets.  [sc 24 – 3t*]    F. W. DOGGETT



Source:  “Runaways.” Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) · Tuesday, September 27, 1864 · Page 1 http://www.newspapers.com/clip/453186/slave_celia Downloaded on March 25, 2014 

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