I would like to invite Va-histers to visit my website, a collection of runaway slave and servant ads from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. Compiled and marked up in collaboration with the Virginia Center for Digital History and the Electronic Text Center at UVA, the site at this time contains nearly 1600 ads for runaways in Virginia up to 1775. It's very much an ongoing project and we eventually plan to include ads through 1800. You can access what we have so far at http://www.wise.virginia.edu/history/runaways/index.html The ads can be browsed by decade or searched for specific terms, name of runaway, name of subscriber, etc. Your comments are most welcome. Tom Costa UVA-Wise [log in to unmask] To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html.