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Sale-A Likely Negro Lad from Clagett 1796

Collection Name

Enslaved and Free African Americans in Western Maryland

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News ad in Washington Spy, 1796 - "A likely Negro lad,"
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ItemID
wmsl214
IDEntry
8408
Creator
Washington Spy
Date
1796-01-21
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Subject
Slaves and Free Blacks, Western Maryland
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1790-1864

A likely Negro lad, about nineteen or twenty years of age, to be sold: for further particulars apply to

JOHN CLAGETT.
Hagerstown, January 14, 1796