what clothes he was wearing. The said mulatto took with him one of his master's carriage horses, a bay, about fifteen hands, with a few harness marks. He was seen on the 4th of this month at the Marseille tavern; there he gave the news of his master's death, \& said that he had been sent up the coast by friends of his master, on important business (Le Moniteur de la Louisiane, 12 March 1808). ${ }^{7}$  
There were many fugitive slaves who, like Charles, did not merely invent stories but acted them out and staged them. The notices, as long as they are read carefully and with caution, take on a real air of the theatre of everyday life. Cuffee, a Jamaican slave, is said to have staged his own death very realistically, and Charles, a slave from Carolina, allegedly tried not to be taken for what he was, namely a slave advertised as a runaway:  
Kingston, May 23, 1812.