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Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by jolmg on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:45PM (#21828546)
What's with the rewards on that?

> Whoever conveys the said slave to me, in Albemarle, shall have 40 s. reward, if taken up within the county, 4 l. if elsewhere within the colony, and 10 l. if in any other colony ...

Is that "s" for small, "l" for large? small/large what?

Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by totalZero on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:59PM (#21828723)
I'm guessing s is shillings and l is pounds.