About 6 or 7 months ago a very dark mulatto escaped, named ‘Gaudino, the son of Sertão do Pernambuco’, with the following characteristics, full of body and ordinary stature, finished hair, and speaks the way of Sertão de Pernambuco,’ knows how to read, write, wearing a shirt and cotton swimsuits, and along with a bundle of stolen white clothes, which he soon had to wear to be a freedman’; whoever finds out about him, warning on rua dos Pescadores, n. 87, will receive good reward (1830Jornal do Commercio . (1830, 2 de julho). p. 4., p. 4, author’s emphasis). |
50$000 réis reward is given to those who capture a’ brown man named Marcelino’, who has been on the run since September 7th of the year, with the following characteristics: thin, long face, ordinary stature, ‘he can read and write, he is very perceptive in speaking, he is an apprentice carpenter’, who know his whereabouts and capture him can go to the street behind the Hospice, n. 77, or rua Direita, n. 34, and will be rewarded (1832aJornal do Commercio . (1832a, 13 de abril). Supl., supl., author’s emphasis). |
On the last day of November of this year, ‘a slave named Francisco fled from a farm of panha, he is a carpenter, a son of Pernambuco, walked with chain in his foot’, in the left hand, his right immediate finger, the large right that does not bend, and on the left foot the little finger is missing. ‘They say that he can read and write, because he had just been bought’; whoever captures and takes him to the farm of Comendador Plácido, or at Rua de São Pedro da Cidade Nova, n. 20, will receive Alviçaras (1832bJornal do Commercio . (1832b, 18 de dezembro). p. 4., p. 4, author’s emphasis). |
On the 22nd of this month, fled from the house on Rua da Quitanda, n. 169, ‘a brown man from Minas’, of very low stature, stocky, ‘very light color, can impersonate white, has black thin long hair’; he is more or less 17 years old, stole twenty coins of 6$400 plus a few small pieces, and in silver, thirty-eight Spanish pesos, and also small metal coins and 200$000 réis or more in banknotes; he wore two pairs of trousers, one white and one black, and his jacket; but considering he has money may have already changed suit; whoever takes him to the house mentioned above, will receive 100$000 réis, ‘warning that he can read and write’ (1833Jornal do Commercio . (1833, 24 de setembro). p. 4., p. 4, author’s emphasis). |
Fifty thousand reis of reward to who take to his master, in Rua Direita, n. 93, the slave named Fernando, Creole, son of Bahia, who is 26 to 28 years old, good stature and well done, ‘is a carpenter and knows how to read and write’: he disappeared on the 12nd of the current, wearing striped trousers, thin white shirt and hair hat, which we think he will calls himself as freedman and from now on, it is protested against anyone who picks him up at his house, etc. (1839aJornal do Commercio . (1839a, 15 de janeiro). p. 4, p. 4, author’s emphasis). |
On December 11st, 1838, the captain Antonio José Afonso Guimarães, now resident in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Direita, n. 3, announced the escape of a brown slave named José Francisco, aged 28 to 30 years old, from Pernambuco, an ‘expert carpenter, who also works as a carpenter’, with the following characteristics: clear, thin, little beard, ordinary stature, trimmed teeth, slow speaking, walking on shoes, he know how to read, write and count, he worked in the works of Mr. Aguiar, in Largo do Machado, in this city, and it is stated that ‘he calls himself free’ [...](1839aJornal do Commercio . (1839a, 15 de janeiro). p. 4, p. 4, author’s emphasis). |