Ahmaud
Language: English 
I said your name
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The following advertisement from the Freedom on the Move database inspired this text: 

100 DOLLARS REWARD RANAWAY from the
subscriber about the 25th of December last, a
negro man by the name of Edom, weighing about
one hundred and eighty pounds, copper color,
wore off a large pair of whiskers, a white fur hat
and decent clothing for a negro. Said boy is about
thirty-five or six years old, and was once owned
by R. R. Hardy, of Lowndes county, Alabama.
Any person apprehending said boy and
delivering him to me ten miles west of
Monticello, Geo, shall have the above reward,
or fifty dollars if confined in any safe Jail so I
can get him, with the proper information of his
apprehension and confinement.

SHADRACK McMICHAEL
Jan 26


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