1824-06-14 Freedom Seeking: Betty
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01106
- Source
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Runaway ad and sale proposition for Betty, by Amos Day
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Runaway ad and sale proposition for Betty, by Amos Day, "NOTICE," Sentinel of Freedom, and New-Jersey Advertiser, June 15, 1824, p. 3.
- Event Description
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On June 14, 1824, enslaver Amos Day submitted a notice that a Black woman named Betty had left his household without his consent. Day lived at Connecticut Farms in Essex County, New Jersey (present-day Union Township in Union County). Day did not offer a reward for Betty's return. This was a follow-up notice as Amos Day had already informed the public a year earlier, in July 1823, that Betty had left. It appears likely that Betty stayed away the whole time, although this is uncertain (it is possible that Betty had come back to Amos Day's house and then left again in the interim). In this second notice, Day offered to sell Betty for $10 to anyone who wished to buy her. This might allow a pathway for Betty, or whoever was harboring her, to officially buy her freedom if they could come up with the $10 price.
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Transcript of the source document:
"NOTICE.
WHEREAS a coloured Woman named BETTY, a slave owned by the subscriber, is absent without my consent; notice is therefore given forewarning all person from harbouring said slave or employing her without my permission as they will be prosecuted to the rigour of the law.—Any person wishing to purchase said slave can have a bill of sale for ten dollars.
AMOS DAY.
Connecticut Farms, June 14, 1824. 5-3w" - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- June 14, 1824
- Location of Event
- Union (formerly Connecticut Farms)
- Preceding Event
- 1823-07-08 Freedom Seeking: Betty
- Primary Participants
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Betty
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02595
Role: Runaway
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Amos Day (1760-1830)
Verbatim description from source:
"coloured Woman named BETTY, a slave owned by the subscriber" - Additional Participants
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Amos Day (1760-1830)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02594
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson