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Jailor in Tuskeegee, Alabama, who caught runaway slave Milton writes to the overseer Lewellyn in Greene County to pay charges and retrieve his property. Milton conveys to jailor that he was making his way back to owner Paul Cameron in North Carolina.

From his newly acquired plantation in Alabama, Paul writes home to his father in North Carolina. The party of slaves relocated from North Carolina to Alabama arrived the prior day on December 6th with their escort Mr. Laws. Paul relays difficulty…