1,066 newspaper ads show Indigenous people still enslaved until 1804 (British colonies/US, 1704–1804)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1704 · Places: Carolinas
SUMMARY1,066 newspaper ads show Indigenous people still enslaved until 1804 (British colonies/US, 1704–1804) [Connections: Carolinas, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDBrown University reports that Linford Fisher and co-authors analyzed "1,066 advertisements related to Indigenous people" (runaway and for-sale ads) in colonial and early US newspapers, 1704–1804, published as "The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704–1804" in Slavery & Abolition
PATTERNEnslaved Indians did not disappear when Carolina's Indian export trade ended in 1715. They stayed in the slave population for another century, and the ads show it
LENS (WW9)A thousand ads prove the Aboriginal enslaved never left; they were absorbed into the quarters
OPENThe page did not give a breakdown by colony. Pull the Carolina ads and the terms used (Indian, mustee, mulatto) from the article itself
SOURCEBrown University History Dept. news, March 30, 2023.