File:Runaway slave ad -- Slave named Bill in jail, Jefferson County, AL.jpg

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English: Advertisement in a newspaper for a runaway slave named Bill, who had been captured and turned over to the Jefferson County Jail.
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Source The New York Public Library Digital Library; Slavery photograph collection. Advertisements. SC-CN-92-038; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Photographs and Prints Division
Author Sheriff M. Kelly, Jefferson County, AL

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