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Fugitive Slave Broadside 1857

FUGITIVE SLAVE BROADSIDE. $100 Reward. Ran away from the subscriber, living near the Anacostia Bridge, on or about the 17th November, negro girl Eliza.

Washington, DC: H. Polkinhorn's Steam Job Printing Office, 28 November 1857. Broadside (285 x 222 mm). Signed in print by John P. Waring. Condition: folds, some wear and minor losses along folds. Matted and framed. The broadside continues: "She calls herself Eliza Coursy. She is of the ordinary size, from 18 to 20 years old, of a chestnut or copper color. Eliza has some scars about her face, has been hired in Washington, and has acquaintances in Georgetown. I will give fifty dollars if taken in the District or Maryland, and one hundred dollars if taken in any free State; but in either case she must be secured in jail so that I get her again." Slavery in the District of Columbia was not banned until 1862.