$30 Reward. Ranaway...a Mulatto Boy whose name is Henry... Letterpress broadside. Frederick, Maryland: the "Times" Office, dated 23 September 1833. Signed in type by Patrick McGill. Visible 11 x 8 1/4in., to framed 17 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. 

A broadside offering a reward for "a Mulatto Boy whose name is Henry" in Frederick County, Maryland. Henry is described as "about 17 years of age, and about five feet high, with a bush heady of hair; very mild in his speech and manners." The description continues with details of his scars and clothes. 

Issued by Patrick McGill, Jr. (1790-1862), whose family were prominent planters in Frederick County, Maryland, owning many slaves. According to the 1850 Federal Census, Patrick enslaved 13 individuals. He does not, however, appear in the 1860 Slave Schedule, though he was still enumerated in the Census as a resident of Jefferson, Frederick County.

A sobering artifact of a time when chattel slavery flourished in the United States.

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