Very Impudent When Drunk or Sober

This book identifies indentured servants and African-American slaves who fled their Delaware masters and whose apprehension was elicited in colonial/Revolutionary newspapers' ads. These ads included descriptions of runaways and criminals living in Delaware as well as those born or having contacts there. The ads contained references to the runaway's age sex height place of origin clothing occupation speech and physical imperfections. In addition the ads often featured attitudes of the owners and personality traits of the runaway. In all this book refers to 2500 runaways and their masters.