Introduction. "When he went away": reading runaway slave notices as history and biography -- A note on the notices -- A note on the newspapers -- Massachusetts notices 1700-1789 -- Connecticut notices 1755-1789 -- Rhode Island 1758-1789 -- New Hampshire 1757-1789.
Summary
An edited collection of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.
