Keyword Year Type Select Ads Obituaries How to Search Advanced Search Showing 258 results Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Baptist Times (Garnett, KS)Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY)Daily Newbernian (New Bern, NC)Evening Star (Washington, DC)Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA)National Republican (Washington, DC)Osawatomie Graphic (Osawatomie, KS)Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)Richmond Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)San Francisco Elevator (San Francisco, CA)Southern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate, (New Orleans, LA)St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO)St. Louis Post Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)The Andrew County Republican (Savannah, MO)The Appeal (Chicago, IL)The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)The Buffalo Enquirer (Buffalo, NY)The Buffalo Review (Buffalo, NY)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Colored American (Washington, DC)The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN)The Daily State Journal (Richmond, VA)The Elevator (San Francisco, CA)The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)The New York World (New York, NY)The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)The Southern Letter (Tuskegee, AL)The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)The Twice-a-Week Independent (Coffeyville, KS)The Weekly Mississippi Pilot (Jackson, MS)Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT) [Ad copied from the Zion Church Advocate, published in Washington, DC, with commentary by the editor of the Vermont Phoenix] Item Type Ad Tags slave traderAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchantebellum adArmy Hospitalaunt(s)capturedchanged namechild(ren)Civil Warcontrabandsdebtdeceaseddowrydying wishemancipationemigrationenslaver looking for former slaveescapedestateestate divisionfamily historyfemale enslaverforced migrationformer enslaverfraternal groupsfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)hired outIndian Territoryinheritancekidnappingleft with Union Armyliteracylocation knownlynchingmanumittedmaster diedmigration (north)migration (post-emancipation)migration (west)ministerministers please readmultiple adsmutual searchNative Americansnewspaper replyparent(s)person with a disabilityphysical descriptionpropertyrailroadrailroad workerReconstructionremarriedresistancereunion successfulrewardrunawayself-emancipationself-purchasesibling(s)simultaneous searchskilled tradeslave tradesoldsold southsoldierspeculatorspousestolensuicideU. 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