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York County miscellaneous slave data

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enslavement data

 

• Names: Caesar ("Negro Caesar")
  Date of item: May 1784
  Location: York
  Item: Court case-- unlawful imprisonment
  Details/Text: "York --May 1784
  Negroe Ceasar complains of being unlawfully confined as a Slave tho he is a freeman."
  Notes:
  Source: Records of the (Pennsylvania) Supreme Court, page 269.
   
• Names: Harry ("Negro Harry")
  Date of item: 12 April 1787
  Location: York
  Item:   Escaped prisoner
  Details/Text: "BROKE out of York Goal on the eighth inst., April, the following
  persons to wit... Negro Harry, about 5 feet 9 inches high, had on a light cloth coat,
  old breeches, blue stockings, and coarse shirt, sharp nose. "
  Notes: Four dollars reward was offered for Harry's capture.
  Source:  Carlisle Gazette, 12 April 1787

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