Research Survey: Fugitive Slave Ads at the Barbados Museum

   

Barbados Mercury, and Bridge-town Gazette (April 19, 1783). From the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00047511/00004.

Andree conducted a research survey at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society in July 2019 of fugitive slave advertisements in historical newspapers.  Fugitive slave advertisements offer a unique form of evidence in reconstructing modes of racialization that developed across different enslavement contexts.  She reviewed content in documents from the Barbados Mercury, and Bridge-town Gazette newspapers from the 18th century.  She scanned and printed certain newspaper issues for further analysis.  Andree will continue to expand this dataset to include other sites of the Caribbean and United States.