Freedom on the Move

Database of 32,258 newspaper advertisements of run away slaves in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives and jailers posted ads describing people they had apprehended in search of the enslavers who claimed the fugitives as property, earliest ad posted in 1704

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Years Covered: 1750-1894

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Source	https://database.freedomonthemove.org/
Type of Slavery Practice	Chattel slavery
Type of Source	Statistical dataset / spreadsheet
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Author	Freedom on the Move, Cornell University, the University of Alabama, the University of New Orleans, University of Kentucky, the Ohio State University
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