runagate

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His great-great-great-grandfather Scipio, a runaway slave, intended to escape from Kentucky alone but wound up trying to help another runagate, a pregnant woman named Abby, cross the Ohio River.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

A reformed runagate finds happiness once more by his wife's side; a mixed chorus softly hums Make Me a Child Again, Just For Tonight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.

From Time Magazine Archive

And I don't propose to bandy words with any runagate American partisan who uses his commission to further private vengeance.

From For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

But a poor runagate no man desired to number among his baptismal relatives; to no nuptial dinner, to no wake-supper, was he bidden.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas