Folder 1

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection consists of a handwritten announcement regarding a runaway slave from the Cuckoo-ville neighborhood of Louisa County, Virginia. Dated August 3, 1840, this letter describes in detail -- including physical characteristics and temperament -- the escaped 18 year old slave named Sam. The author of this document, Joseph Coats Jr., presumably the slave's owner, offers a ten dollar reward to "any persons who will deliver him to me at my house, or secure him in such a manner that I...