Else
Acrylic, Wax, Washi, and Mixed Media
24" x 36"

Runaway Negro Girl. Ran away, from the subscriber, on Monday, the 4th of February, a Negro Girl, named Else; aged 13 years, about 4 feet 7 inches high – she is rather cropped in one ear – took with her the following clothes, viz. A grey coating jacket and coat joined together; also a grey coating rapper, with the body lined with flannel, coat and jacket of blue and white striped cotton; the said jacket and coat were joined together also a blue cloth petticoat, with a grey coating body, blue stockings. Whoever shall take said Negro girl within the district, shall have a reward of Eight Dollars; if taken 10 miles from Alexandria, Fifteen Dollars, and 20 miles, Thirty Dollars, if secured in any goal so that I get her again. Thomas Richards. February 6 1805.

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