"Runaway Ad for Joe"

ID: 3753 ~ Source: Freedom on the Move Project, Midlo Center, University of New Orleans ~ Date: 1830's
This file appears in: “Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People

This runaway slave ad, posted in 1830's by a local jailor, states that the said slave was harbored in the Orleans Parish jail. Ads such as this one were common in New Orleans and would inform the slaves' owners to pick them up from the prison.

This file appears in: “Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People