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Newspaper advertisements, notices, tell a story of slavery in Southwestern Pennsylvania
A notice that appeared in the Washington Reporter in 1814, offering a reward for an escaped slave. At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a neighbor’s pastureland. The …