It's good to have this information, Tom--thanks for posting it.

--Jurretta Heckscher


On May 11, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Tom Costa wrote:

> Dear VA-HISTERS:
>  Please excuse some shameless self-promotion.  The following is a  
> blurb
> for a colleague's and my appearance on the radio show, "With Good
> Reason," May 9-15.
>
> A new website has gathered more than 5,000 advertisements offering  
> rewards
> for runaway slaves—placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 through  
> 1803.
> Tom Costa (University of Virginia College at Wise) says that taken  
> as a
> whole the ads help to humanize the stories of men and women by giving
> modern historians information about their physical appearance,  
> clothing,
> skills, family ties, and even their owner’s speculation on why they  
> were
> escaping.  Also:  150 years ago, John Brown either sought martyrdom or
> earnestly tried to free Virginia’s slaves through his assault on the
> Harper’s Ferry arsenal.  Michael Hunt (University of Virginia  
> College at
> Wise) dissects history as a form of theater, looking at Brown’s
> decades-long rehearsal for his “performance” of the raid, his trial,  
> and
> hanging.
>
> Please check their website, www.withgoodreasonradio.org, for more
> information and air times.
>
> My project on the runaway ads can be found at www.vcdh.virginia.edu/ 
> gos
>
> Tom Costa

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