Fugitive Slave Advertisements Showing Iron Bonds

ID: 6103 ~ Source: Times-Picayune December 15, 1847 p.3; Times-Picayune August 10, 1847 p. 3. ~ Date: 12/15/1847; 08/10/1847.

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Persistence and Resistance: Two Fugitive Slave Advertisements of Enslaved Bakery Worker PETER with Details of Physical Restraints, a Sign of Having Run Before.

This file appears in: Enslaved Bakers and the Foreign French: D’Aquin, Bouny, and Poincy Bakeries

Enslaved Bakers and the Foreign French: D’Aquin, Bouny, and Poincy Bakeries

By Dana Logsdon

Before the Civil War, enslaved labor was an integral part of the commercial baking industry and the overall economy in New Orleans. While food historians note the role that French, Spanish, and Anglo…