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Fugitive slave advertisements in the United States, a Common card
Fugitive slave advertisements in the United States or runaway slave ads, were paid classified advertisements describing a missing person and usually offering a monetary reward for the recovery of the valuable chattel.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,400
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Fugitive slave ads were a unique vernacular genre of non-fiction specific to the antebellum United States.
- These ads often include detailed biographical information about individual enslaved Americans including "physical and distinctive features, literacy level, specialized skills," and "if they might have been headed for another plantation where they had family, or if they took their children with them when they ran." Runaway slave ads sometimes mentioned local slave traders who had sold the slave to…
- Some ads had implied or explicit threats against "slave stealers," be they altruistic abolitionists like the "nest of infernal Quakers" in Pennsylvania, or criminal kidnappers.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fugitive slave advertisements in the United States article was read about 3,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Fugitive slave advertisements in the United States
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fugitive slave advertisements in the United States (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The Anti-Slavery Record, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
