What Do You Know About the Slavery Ads?

Fugitive slave adverts appear from 17 o five all the way through to 18 64. The purpose of the ad was to inform the public that a fugitive am from slavery had escaped, and then to facilitate recapture. Advertisements do appear, but they're very careful not to use the word slave. They can go from a really broad, a really brief description, even, of physical appearance, and maybe some details round the act of escape itself. But at times a, you know, at mar list, for example, all the clothes that an enslaved person took with them, and may speculate on their whereabouts,. if they, youknow, escaped with any family bers.