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Spirit Of Jefferson
Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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Tallahassee Sentinel reports a young Black man fled free life in Pennsylvania due to poverty, arrived by sea at St. Marks, and now lives contentedly as a slave in Jefferson County, Florida, as a jab at abolitionists.
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There is now, as we are most credibly informed a young negro man living in Jefferson county, in this State, who, unable to endure longer the condition of degraded isolation, poverty and destitution, in which the Northern free blacks drag out a miserable and precarious life, actually effected his escape from Pennsylvania, came to St. Marks by sea, and is now living in contented servitude in the family of a respectable resident of that county.
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Jefferson County, In This State
Event Date
11th Inst.
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now living in contented servitude in the family of a respectable resident of that county
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a young negro man living in Jefferson county, in this State, who, unable to endure longer the condition of degraded isolation, poverty and destitution, in which the Northern free blacks drag out a miserable and precarious life, actually effected his escape from Pennsylvania, came to St. Marks by sea