In The Words of Others…

Virginia Gazette Advertisement for “EBOE”

Virginia Gazette
(Hunter), Williamsburg,
January 30, 1752.

African Sculpture with scarification patterns on forehead.

STOLEN, or ran away, from the Subscriber’s Plantation, in King and Queen County, on Sunday, the 17th of November last, a likely young Eboe Negroe Man Slave, who was imported last Summer in the Ship Williamsburg, Capt. Tate; he is a short well-set Fellow, with a small Scar on his right Cheek, and a Parcel of small Scars on his Forehead, which is suppos’d to be his Country Mark; he was well cloathed with Cotton and Canvis, and a Pair of Virginia Shoes; went by the name of Cuffee, and can speak but few words of English: If stolen, I do hereby offer a Reward of Ten Pistoles to any Person that will apprehend the Thief, so as he may be brought to Justice; and Two Pistoles, besides what the Law allows, if taken up as a Run-away.

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