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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political Runaway August 8, 1811
Alexandria, Virginia
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Cautionary note: slavery-era racial language; enslaved person described as property
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Hugh Rogers offers twenty dollars (ten in DC or Virginia) for the return of Margery, an enslaved woman about 24, who ran away on 25 June from Loudoun County, Va. with her young daughter Lucy, about 5, who has a burn scar on her neck.
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