Female Enslavers
Adame, Alex
https://informationwanted.org/folders/show/54
About this folder
This folder contains ads that highlight enslaved individuals or their family with female enslavers, challenging the misconception that white women were passive bystanders in slavery. These ads confront white women's participation in the practice of slavery to reveal a deeper understanding of power dynamics specifically regarding gender.
Ads
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Mrs. Chamberlaine looking for her son Jefferson Chamberlaine, son-in-law Orange, and daughter Matilda
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
May 19, 1866
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/194
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Margaret Battle searching for her father Joe Bround
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA
July 8, 1880
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4552
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Thomas Pierce searching for his brother Martin Lipcombe
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 1, 1880
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4553
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Mrs. Winnie Raynolds searching for her mother Fannie Vann and sisters
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 12, 1880
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4558
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Jason McCloud searching for his father Jason, mother Rosa, siblings, wife, and children
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 31, 1879
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4640
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John Colbert Skinner (formerly John Gray) searching for his brother Edward Allington
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4661
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Jack Robinson (formerly Jack Boils) searching for his mother Mary Boils and siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 10, 1880
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4703
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George Pettis seeking Sam, Armstead, Rhoda, and Eliza Davis
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 28, 1888
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4453
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Malissa Baker (formerly Malissa Robertson) searching for Bettie and Mary Hicks
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
September 20, 1888
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4444
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Isaac Allen searching for his brothers Rufus and James Allen
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
November 24, 1881
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/4434