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The Boston News-Letter 29 December 1726. The Boston News-Letter 29 December 1726.
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The Boston News-Letter 24 August 1727. The Boston News-Letter 24 August 1727.
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Abstract
Runaway slave advertisements are necessarily fragmentary, narrative scraps in search of an ending. But such endings or continuations of a story rarely appear, and sometimes it is unclear whether a subsequent text is the next installment in a serial history or a separate story of slavery with overlapping details. These two advertisements require readers to decide whether the Timothy who escaped from Daniel Johannot of Boston, in December 1726, is the same man who escaped from Job Green of Warwick, Rhode Island, eight months later. The difficulty in determining whether these advertisements refer to the same man highlights the challenge these narrative fragments posed to readers. The matter of naming is a shared concern for the men in these advertisements. Both report a name given or recognized by the white community as well as a name preferred by the enslaved and in common use. The enslaved sought self-determination in every aspect of their lives, including in the matter of what names masters, acquaintances, and friends would use to address them.
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