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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Navyuncle(s)Underground Railroaduntranscribedveteranwhite fatherwhite newspaperwidow Sophia Bishop searching for brother, Kinnett Claggett The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) August 9, 1888 Tuague Miller searching for his siblings, Sarah and Caroline Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 15, 1881 Jeff Frierson reuniting with his wife Mary Burt The Tennessean (Nashville, TN) September 25, 1903 Alfred Green searching for parents Maria and William Green People's Advocate (Washington, DC) May 3, 1879 Alice Brown searching for her lost relatives The Baptist Vanguard (Little Rock, AR) November 5, 1896 Victoria Robinson searching for her two brothers Lewis and Granison Robinson The Baptist Vanguard (Little Rock, AR) April 27, 1894 William Brown seeking Rachel and Margaret Brown The Northwestern Recorder (Milwaukee, WI) February, 1893 Thomas T. 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McVea searching for his brother Jim Aiken Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 1, 1880 Mrs. Sallie Warner (formerly Sallie Caloway) searching for her siblings William, Washington, Jerry, and others Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 26, 1880 Malinda Jones (formerly Malinda Rhode) searching for her father Samuel Rhode and her siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 6, 1880 Matilda Woodrow searching for her sisters Leah and Hannah Ash Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 18, 1880 Diana Lange searching for her siblings Betsey, Juno, William, Thomas, and John Lange Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 11, 1879 Reverend B. M. Taylor searching for his sister Maria Walker (formerly Darkens Taylor) Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 25, 1880 of 74
