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Anaya and Bruxe Angatta Negroes Wanted After Theft
A 1807 sheriff sale notice lists a January sale in Augusta area details a disappearance of four enslaved Africans from Edgefield with garb and no English spoken. The ad offers reward for capture and return to Latire and Bruxio Angatta or recipient’s South Carolina plantation, plus a separate inmate named Billy in Burke jail and a military drill uniform for sale.
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Augusta
Georgia
South Carolina
Robert Blakeley
Charleston
Savannah
Holland M‘tyr
John M
Anaway
Edgefield
Mesirs Latitre
Brux Io Angatta
Sequinio Kerblay
Burke
Rouginn
Shaif+r
Billy
Emery Laseter
Tr N. B
Mr. Shaw
Savan