Runaway Slave Advertisement for Daniel (1826)

ID: 668 ~ Source: Western Times (6 July 1826), Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 6 July 1826

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Runaway Slave Advertisement for Daniel (1826)

A runaway slave advertisement for Daniel, "about twenty-two years old," was published in the 6 July 1826 issue of the Western Times of Portsmouth, Ohio.

This file appears in: Runaway Slave Advertisements in Portsmouth, Ohio

Runaway Slave Advertisements in Portsmouth, Ohio

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

As a river town, bordering the slave state of Kentucky, the newspapers of Portsmouth, Ohio, would occasionally publish runaway slave advertisements, paid for by slaveowners in Kentucky, Virginia, and other states to the south. As a major intermodal…