The Motivations for Posting Slavery Ads

Do we have a sense of whether what the slave holders wanted was the person returned to work for them again, for their purposes? Did they want to find them for a punitive reason, to punish them and and to deter others from trying to escape? I think, again, a combination of all. And that it really profound impact acti on my own research, and in the way that i looked at these sources. It seems to be just about control, an, an having control of someone's fate, effectively from from afar.