In the rationale or methodology section, it might be a good idea to talk a little bit about how the advertisements you sorted were technically "capture notices" and not "jailers' notices." I guess it could work in the conclusions section too, but because you talked about jailers' notices at the beginning of the rationale section as justification for separating the advertisements, it could be misleading to someone who doesn't know much about runaway slave advertisements. Example for changing:
"Through our close readings of our runaway slave advertisement corpora, we quickly realized that a significant portion of the ads present were not ads posted by owners searching for runaways, but ads posted by jailers who had captive runaways and were searching for the owners or advertisements posted by citizens who had found and captured runaway slaves."
In the rationale or methodology section, it might be a good idea to talk a little bit about how the advertisements you sorted were technically "capture notices" and not "jailers' notices." I guess it could work in the conclusions section too, but because you talked about jailers' notices at the beginning of the rationale section as justification for separating the advertisements, it could be misleading to someone who doesn't know much about runaway slave advertisements. Example for changing:
"Through our close readings of our runaway slave advertisement corpora, we quickly realized that a significant portion of the ads present were not ads posted by owners searching for runaways, but ads posted by jailers who had captive runaways and were searching for the owners or advertisements posted by citizens who had found and captured runaway slaves."