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    • Escaped appears in ads in which the person being sought is described as having runaway (sometimes described by historians as self-emancipated), thereby escaping slavery.

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Vina Johnson reunited with her husband George Perry after 43 years

The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

August 14, 1873

Wedding After Forty Years of
Separation.
Our town is all agog this morning
over the wedding that is to be cele-
brated [celebrated] in a day or two between Aunt
Vina Johnson, an old colored lady of
our place, and a former husband,
from whom she has been separated
for forty years. Forty-three years
ago Aunt Vina was the slave of a Mr.…

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W. J. Deboe searching for his father Lewis Pearce and relatives

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

September 14, 1901

Do You Know Them?I desire to know the whereabouts of my father and relatives. His name was Lewis Pearce. He was sold to a Negro trader down South, but refused to go and ran away to Canada.I was only two weeks old and one week later, my mother, Patsy Crider died and my grand mother, Katy Crid-er [Crider] raised me to 9 years of age and she…

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Washington Stewart searching for his brother Abraham Stewart

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 28, 1881

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire for my brother Abraham Stewart. He went off with the Yankees in 1863 from Louisiana. He is a son of Ned and Rutha Stewart. We belonged to Robert Malloy in Louisiana and Abraham was the oldest of eight children. He is about forty years old. I heard he went to Missouri. I will pay ten dollars to the finder of him.…

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William Robinson (formerly William Volantine) searching for his brother Daniel Cromwell (formerly Joshua Volantine)

Liberator (Boston, MA)

March 2, 1849

INFORMATION WANTED. William Volantine, now
named William Robinson, who was once a slave in
Baltimore, and now living in New Bedford, wishes to
know where his brother is, who was a slave in the
same place, but came from Baltimore about three
years since to Philadelphia. His name was Joshua
Volantine, but he received the name of Daniel…

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