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Definition of Runaways
1. runaway [n] - See also: runaway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runaways
Literary usage of Runaways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domestic Service by Lucy Maynard Salmon (1897)
"Free negroes or mulattoes harboring runaways were to forfeit one thousand pounds
... By a later act, servants harboring runaways were to be punished by the ..."
2. Domestic Service by Lucy Maynard Salmon (1897)
"Free negroes or mulattoes harboring runaways were to forfeit one thousand pounds
of tobacco for every such offence, one half for the use of free schools and ..."
3. Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) by Marion Gleason McDougall, Albert Bushnell Hart (1891)
"Act I. An Act concerning runaways. Reward for apprehending runaways is reduced
to two hundred ... Virginia : — Reward to the first taker up of runaways. ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"I runaways married—parole 7 runaways immoral—colonies 7 runaways immoral—parole
4 runaways lost—colonies 2 runaways lost—parole 5 Babies born to colony ..."
5. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1896)
"runaways.—One of the commonest delinquencies on the part of the slaves was running
away. Used to the forest life in Africa and accustomed to much severity ..."
6. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"1 Right to return runaways.—runaways and deserting apprentices were to be returned
again to service. An apprentice being absent from service for seven and a ..."
7. Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863: Illustrative of Industrial by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1909)
"LISTS OF runaways IMPRISONED IN JAMAICAN WORKHOUSES, 1803 Official advertisements
of runaways from the Royal Gazette (Kingston, ..."
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