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Twenty-five Dollars Rward [runaway ad for Nance]
Rue, William
1810-05-31
Nance, a 20-year-old black woman, ran away from slaveholder William Rue on May 12, 1810, in the vicinity of Spotswood, Middlesex County (approximately 8 miles south of New Brunswick). Nance is literate and her master suspects that she forged a pass…
TWO NEGROMEN [pickup notice for Matthew Fairfax and Levi Brown]
Keenon, Peter
1801-03-27
Two black men, Matthew Fairfax and Levi Brown, were captured and committed to jail in New Brunswick as suspected runaways on January 1, 1801. Peter Keenon, the keeper of the prison of Middlesex county, publishes a notice stating that the two men will…
Twenty Dollars Reward [runaway ad for Elsy Murray]
Bogart, Peter
1818-05-14
Elsy Murray, a 20-year-old black woman, ran away from slaveholder Peter Bogart in Princeton on February 13, 1818. Elsy Murray could read well and had a pass for 2 days. She had a brother near Piscataway, and the slaveholder supposed that someone…
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Life Under Apartheid CISSAL Brochure
Coalition in Solidarity with Southern African Liberation (CISSAL)
1977
Illustrated leaflet about South African apartheid produced by the Coalition in Solidarity with Southern African Liberation (CISSAL), a Rutgers student…