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] APPENDIX C [ Runaway Ads Williams attempted to run away from Caleb Tate’s plantation in Alabama at least three times. Tate advertised for him in the closest newspaper, the Selma Free Press, as well as other surrounding papers, the Huntsville Advocate, the Mobile Advertiser, the Montgomery Journal, and the Tuscaloosa Intelligencer and State Rights Expositor. Williams did pass near both Montgomery and Selma on his final escape, according to his description in the narrative. There are two known ads. The first appeared August 29, 1835, and ran through October 17, 1835. The one presented here is taken from the August 29 Alabama Intelligencer and State Rights Expositor: ] FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. Absconded from the subscriber on Sunday night the 23d inst four Negroes, of the following description, viz: SHADRICK, a yellow complected, likely fellow bold and impudent look, about 5 feet 10 inches high 26 years old, wears his hair roached, eyes of a yellowish cast, and wore a white hat. HARRIET, the wife of Shadrick, a bright mulatto, low in statue [sic] and heavy built, wears her hair long and about 22 years old. They took with them their child, a boy named BEN, about 15 months old. They absconded previously, and Shadrick assumed the name of Ben Jonson and Harriet that of Eliza. MACK about the same height of Shadrick, yellowish complected, about 19 years of age, and quick spoken. The clothing of said negroes cannot be described as they had some not known to the owner. They may have been supplied with forged free papers or stolen by some white person, as our county is litterally [sic] filled up with persons of suspicious character. I will give the above reward for the confinement of said negroes in some runaway ads 157 jail so I can recover them, or for their delivery to me, residing in Dallas county, eight miles from Selma. CALEB TATE. ] The second ad ran from October 24, 1835, through at least December 5, 1835. The following example is taken from the October 24, 1835, Selma Free Press: 40 DOLLARS REWARD.—Ranaway from the subscriber, residing near Valley Creek Academy, Dallas county, Ala. on the night of the 16th Oct. inst. two Negroes of the following description, viz: William, a very black man, about 5 feet 4 inches high, has a blemish in his right eye, has a scar on his shoulder occasioned by a burn, and aged 25 years. Shadrick, a yellow complected, likely fellow, bold and impudent look, about 5 feet 10 inches high, 26 years old, wears his hair roached, eyes of rather a yellowish cast, and wore a white hat. Ten dollars will be paid for the commitment of each of the above negroes within the State, or twenty dollars each if committed out of the State, so I may get them. CALEB TATE. Oct. 17, 1835.—tf11 The Montgomery Journal, the Mobile Advertiser, the Tuscaloosa Intelligencer, and the Huntsville Advocate will give the above three insertions and forward bills to this office. ...

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