Slavery Advertisements Published September 22, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Pennsylvania Gazette (September 22, 1773).

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Pennsylvania Journal (September 22, 1773).

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Pennsylvania Journal (September 22, 1773).

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Pennsylvania Journal (September 22, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 21, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Connecticut Courant (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 21, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 20, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Boston Evening-Post (September 20, 1773).

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Boston-Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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Boston-Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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Boston-Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 20, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 20, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 20, 1773).

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Pennsylvania Packet (September 20, 1773).

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Supplement to the Pennsylvania Packet (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 20, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 18, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Maryland Journal (September 18, 1773).

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Maryland Journal (September 18, 1773).

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Maryland Journal (September 18, 1773).

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Providence Gazette (September 18, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 16, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Maryland Gazette (September 16, 1773).

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Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter (September 16, 1773).

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Massachusetts Spy (September 16, 1773).

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Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 16, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 15, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Pennsylvania Gazette (September 15, 1773).

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Pennsylvania Journal (September 15, 1773).

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Pennsylvania Journal (September 15, 1773).

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Postscript to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 15, 1773).

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Postscript to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 15, 1773).

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Postscript to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 15, 1773).

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Postscript to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 15, 1773).

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Postscript to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 15, 1773).

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Postscript to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 15, 1773).

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Postscript to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 15, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 14, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Connecticut Courant (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 14, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 13, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Boston Evening-Post (September 13, 1773).

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Boston Evening-Post (September 13, 1773).

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Boston-Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Boston-Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Boston-Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Post-Boy (September 13, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 13, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 13, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 13, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 13, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 13, 1773).

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New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (September 13, 1773).

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Pennsylvania Packet (September 13, 1773).

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South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette (September 13, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 10, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Connecticut Journal (September 10, 1773).

Slavery Advertisements Published September 9, 1773

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 about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses – 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 colonizers 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. Colonizers who did not purport to own enslaved people were still confronted with slavery as well as invited to maintain the system by purchasing enslaved men, women, and children or assisting in the capture of so-called “runaways” who sought to free themselves from bondage. 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 enslavers rather than enslaved people themselves. Often unnamed in the advertisements, enslaved men, women, and children were not invisible or unimportant in early America.

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

Maryland Gazette (September 9, 1773).

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Maryland Gazette (September 9, 1773).

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Maryland Gazette (September 9, 1773).

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Maryland Gazette (September 9, 1773).

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Maryland Gazette (September 9, 1773).

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Maryland Journal (September 9, 1773).

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Maryland Journal (September 9, 1773).

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Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter (September 9, 1773).

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Massachusetts Spy (September 9, 1773).

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Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Rind] (September 9, 1773).

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Virginia Gazette [Rind] (September 9, 1773).