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Manuscript document appointing Major McLemore to retrieve Claiborne Clifton's runaway slave - page 2
- Title:
- Manuscript document appointing Major McLemore to retrieve Claiborne Clifton's runaway slave - page 2
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Creator:
- Clifton, Claiborne
- Creation Date:
- 1808-04-18
- Site:
- Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
- Location:
- Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
- ID Number:
- RMC2013_0002
- Catalog Record:
- 4613203
- Collection Number:
- 4681
- File Name:
- RMC2013_0002.tif
- Work Type:
- autographs (manuscripts)
- Subject:
- Slavery
Fugitive slaves
- Description:
- Newspaper clipping: "... On the 24th of June, 1807, near Salisbury, and committed to jail, a runaway slave, who says his name is TONY, and says he belongs to a Mr. Richard Wiln or Ware, in Amelia County, Va. He is about 5 feet high, and 35 or 40 years old; he talks broken English, and says he runaway from his master as he was going to the south to sell him..."
- Cite As:
- Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection, #4681. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection
- Box:
- 14
- Folder:
- 9
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
