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Group 3 BHS

At the BHS, we looked at two documents that advertised slave runaways. 1. The first document that we looked at was a typescript journal of a John Baxter of Flatlands, Long Island -the document was a big green book and the pages of it looked somewhat delicate, which indicates that it was old -it was from the time periods of 1805- May 1817 -it was published in Brooklyn, NY 1955 -the farm that he owned was located in Flatlands, Long Island -in page 21 of the journal; from July-Sept of 1807 we read events that go on in the man's life and at the barn he owned -he states that a slave ran off- of the name Abraham Wyckoff -in page 133 of the journal;  from April-June of 1815, Mr. Baxter's "negro ran away" as he states on May 19th - on May Mr. Baxter went to the town to publish an add for his runaway slave, with a reward of $80 on May 22 2.The second document  that we looked at was a runaway slave add in a newspaper -A.H Inskeep was the one who put up the add - it was for a mulatto named George of about 22 years of age -he was described as tall and slender -it cautioned all persons not to harbor or employ said boy -it was estimated that the boy ran away June 2-3