<I>Virginia Herald Vol. XVIII No. 1386</I>

American The Virginia Herald

1800

Medium: ink on newsprint
Genre: Newspapers
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Styles

newspapers

Tags

Mass mediaSelf-liberationslaveryFugitive enslavedDomestic slave tradeAdvertisingFrench colonialismColonies

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Two newspaper pages including a front page. The newspaper is discolored, some damage at edges and other losses. Content includes news from Virginia, the United States, and the world, including reports of the French in Louisiana and notice of a French ban on printed news of any sort allowed into colony of Guadaloupe. Advertisements includes notices for sales of enslaved persons, skilled enslaved persons being hired out by their owners, and rewards for the capture and return of fugitive enslaved persons.