Slavery Advertisements Published August 7, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Aug 7 - Essex Gazette slavery 1
Essex Gazette (August 7, 1770)

*********

Aug 7 - Essex Gazette slavery 2
Essex Gazette (August 7, 1770)

*********

Aug 7 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 1
South-Carolina and Country Journal Gazette (August 7, 1770)

*********

Aug 7 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 2
South-Carolina and Country Journal Gazette (August 7, 1770)

*********

Aug 7 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 3
South-Carolina and Country Journal Gazette (August 7, 1770)

*********

Aug 7 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 4
South-Carolina and Country Journal Gazette (August 7, 1770)

*********

Aug 7 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 5
South-Carolina and Country Journal Gazette (August 7, 1770)

*********

Aug 7 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 6
South-Carolina and Country Journal Gazette (August 7, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published August 6, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Aug 6 - Boston Evening-Post slavery 1
Boston Evening-Post (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - Boston Evening-Post supplement slavery 1
Boston Evening-Post (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - Boston Evening-Post supplement slavery 2
Boston Evening-Post (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - Connecticut Courant slavery 1
Connecticut Courant (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury slavery 1
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury slavery 2
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury slavery 3
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury supplement slavery 1
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury supplement slavery 2
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (August 6, 1770)

*********

Aug 6 - New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy slavery 1
New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy (August 6, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published August 4, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Aug 4 - Providence Gazette slavery 1
Providence Gazette (August 4, 1770)

*********

Aug 4 - Providence Gazette slavery 2
Providence Gazette (August 4, 1770)

*********

Aug 4 - Providence Gazette slavery 3
Providence Gazette (August 4, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published August 3, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Aug 3 - South-Carolina and American General Gazette slavery 1
South-Carolina and American General Gazette (August 3, 1770)

*********

Aug 3 - South-Carolina and American General Gazette slavery 2
South-Carolina and American General Gazette (August 3, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published August 2, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Aug 2 - Maryland Gazette slavery 1
Maryland Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Maryland Gazette slavery 2
Maryland Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter slavery 1
Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - New-York Journal slavery 1
New-York Journal (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - New-York Journal slavery 2
New-York Journal (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - New-York Journal slavery 3
New-York Journal (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - New-York Journal slavery 4
New-York Journal (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Pennsylvania Gazette slavery 1
Pennsylvania Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Pennsylvania Gazette slavery 2
Pennsylvania Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Pennsylvania Journal slavery 1
Pennsylvania Journal (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Pennsylvania Journal slavery 2
Pennsylvania Journal (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 1
South-Carolina Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 2
South-Carolina Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 3
South-Carolina Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 4
South-Carolina Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 5
South-Carolina Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 6
South-Carolina Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 7
South-Carolina Gazette (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 1
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 2
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 3
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 4
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 5
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 6
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 7
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 8
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 9
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

*********

Aug 2 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 10
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (August 2, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published July 31, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Jul 31 - Essex Gazette slavery 1
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 1
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 2
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 3
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 4
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 5
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 6
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 7
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 8
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

*********

Jul 31 - South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal slavery 9
South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 31, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published July 30, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Jul 30 - Boston Gazette slavery 2
Boston Gazette (July 30, 1770)

********

Jul 30 - Boston Gazette slavery 3
Boston Gazette (July 30, 1770)

********

Jul 30 - Boston Gazette slavery 4
Boston Gazette (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - Boston-Gazette slavery 1
Boston Gazette (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - Connecticut Courant slavery 1
Connecticut Courant (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury slavery 1
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury slavery 3
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury slavery 5
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - New-York Gazette, and Weekly Mercury slavery 2
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - New-York Gazette, and Weekly Mercury slavery 4
New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy slavery 1
New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy (July 30, 1770)

*********

Jul 30 - New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy slavery 2
New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy (July 30, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published July 28, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Jul 28 - Providence Gazette slavery 1
Providence Gazette (July 28, 1770)

*********

Jul 28 - Providence Gazette slavery 2
Providence Gazette (July 28, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published July 26, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Jul 26 1770 - Maryland Gazette Slavery 1
Maryland Gazette (July 26, 1770)

**********

Jul 26 1770 - Maryland Gazette Slavery 2
Maryland Gazette (July 26, 1770)

**********

Jul 26 1770 - Maryland Gazette Slavery 3
Maryland Gazette (July 26, 1770)

**********

Jul 26 - Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter slavery 1
Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - New-York Journal slavery 1
New-York Journal (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - New-York Journal slavery 2
New-York Journal (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - New-York Journal slavery 3
New-York Journal (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - New-York Journal slavery 4
New-York Journal (July 26, 1770)

********

Jul 26 - New-York Journal slavery 5
New-York Journal (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Pennsylvania Gazette slavery 1
Pennsylvania Gazette (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Pennsylvania Journal slavery 1
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Pennsylvania Journal slavery 2
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Pennsylvania Journal slavery 3
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser slavery 4
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser slavery 5
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 1
South-Carolina Gazette (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 2
South-Carolina Gazette (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 3
South-Carolina Gazette (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 4
South-Carolina Gazette (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 5
South-Carolina Gazette (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - South-Carolina Gazette slavery 6
South-Carolina Gazette (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 1
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 2
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 3
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 4
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 5
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 6
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 7
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 8
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 9
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

*********

Jul 26 - Virginia Gazette Rind slavery 10
Virginia Gazette [Rind] (July 26, 1770)

Slavery Advertisements Published July 25, 1770

GUEST CURATOR: Parker Sears

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements for slaves – for sale, wanted to purchase, runaways, captured fugitives – in daily digests on this site as well as in real time via the @SlaveAdverts250 Twitter feed, utilizing twenty-first-century media to stand in for the print media of the eighteenth century.

The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. Enslaved men, women, and children appeared in print somewhere in the colonies almost every single day. Those advertisements served as a constant backdrop for social, cultural, economic, and political life in colonial and revolutionary America. Colonists who did not own slaves were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing slaves or assisting in the capture of runaways. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

These advertisements also testify to the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children, though readers must consider that those experiences have been remediated through descriptions offered by slaveholders rather than the slaves themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

From compiling an archive of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers to identifying advertisements about enslaved men, women, and children in those newspapers to preparing images of each advertisement to posting this daily digest, Parker Sears served as guest curator for this entry. Working on this project fulfilled his senior capstone requirement for completing the major in History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

These advertisements appeared in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today.

Jul 25 - South-Carolina and American General Gazette slavery 1
South-Carolina Gazette (July 25, 1770)

********

Jul 25 - South-Carolina and American General Gazette slavery 2
South-Carolina Gazette (July 25, 1770)

*********

Jul 25 - South-Carolina and American General Gazette slavery 3
South-Carolina Gazette (July 25, 1770)

*********

Jul 25 - South-Carolina and American General Gazette slavery 4
South-Carolina Gazette (July 25, 1770)