Under a title, Life in New Orleans, there is a listing of six advertisements which offer rewards varying from $5 to $100, from slaveholders, for the return of slaves who have run away. Each has a description of the runaway, indicating scars, burns, wounds on the bodies which will help identify them. After copying these advertisements, the editor has this comment: “Scars – burns – whip-marks – teeth knocked out – slit ears !! behold the march of humanity! The foregoing are copied from the New Orleans Picayune and the Bulletin. —- Philanthropist”
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