Beschreibung:

100 Reward. Ranaway from the subscriber, living near Upper Marlboro', Prince George's county, Md., on the 2nd of September, 1856. Negro woman Jane, calls herself Jane Stephenson.
N.p. but Maryland or Washington, DC?]: 4 September 1856. Broadside (270 x 305 mm). Signed in print by B. F. Duvall. Condition : contemporay ink docketing on verso visible recto, paper backed. The broadside continues: “She is about 28 years old -- five feet eight or ten inches high -- black … I will give $25 if taken in Prince George’s county--$50 if taken in any other part of the State of Maryland or district of Columbia --- and the above reward if taken elsewhere, and secured in jail or brought home to me.” A nice example of a runaway slave reward poster. Following the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, runaway slaves in free states could be detained and returned to their owners. Nevertheless, many slave owners additionally issued these broadsides to reclaim their “property.