Keyword Year How to Search Advanced Search Showing 1832 ads Tags: former enslaver Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Afro-American (Baltimore, MD)Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)American Citizen (Canton, MS)Anglo-African (New York, NY)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Arkansas Weekly Mansion (Little Rock, AR)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)Baton Rouge Tri-weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, LA)Beaufort Republican (Beaufort, SC)Bee (Ripley, OH)Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, TN)Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, OH)Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO)Daily Newbernian (New Bern, NC)Evening Star (Washington, DC)Globe (New York, NY)Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hills, NV) (reprinted, with editorial commentary, 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Coleman searching for their relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 10, 1880 Lizzie Abram searching for her mother Eliza Wilson and her siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 3, 1880 Reverend Isaac Harville searching for his mother Julia Harvill and his siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 27, 1880 Sarah Ann Huff (formerly Sarah Ann Jackson Peter) searching for her father Jerry Jackson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 10, 1880 John Doty searching for his mother May Doty Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 27, 1880 John Colbert Skinner (formerly John Gray) searching for his brother Edward Allington Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) George Reed searching for his daughter Kittie Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 3, 1880 Georgiana Hawarth searching for her mother, sisters, and brothers Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 24, 1880 Julia searching for her mother Mary Patun The Pacific Appeal (San Francisco, CA) December 3, 1870 Mrs. Sallie Crump searching for her children Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 1, 1880 Robert Howard searching for his sister Elizabeth Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 10, 1880 Gye Smith searching for his children Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 17, 1880 Jos. 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