, or tell the narrator the names of any person who has helped the slaves to hide, and also to those accomplices directly: 'Whoever apprehends any of the above slaves, shall have a Pistole for each of them. [...] All persons harbouring \&c. are cautioned [...] and Four Doubloons will be paid on conviction.' While not all the notices published in slave-owning societies across the Atlantic were as long or as rich as that of Richard Poore, this basic ternary definition - narrative, story, narration - applies equally well to fugitive slave notices in general. It is a reminder that these are not just descriptions, but involve a subjective act of writing: simple, admittedly, but writing nonetheless.