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Item Title: Slaves

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- Bill of sale for three slaves bought by H. M. Weedon from H. G. Wright.
- Weedon purchased the slaves, a thirty-five-year-old woman and her two children, for $1200 in Key West, Florida.
- 2011-09-22
- Transcript of "An Act for the Order and Government of Slaves" passed by the General Assembly of British West Florida.
- 1767-06-00
- Most of the act deals with the punishment of slaves who have violated the law. Possible offenses include running away; gaming; stealing; selling merchandise; carrying weapons; drinking alcohol; "assembling in great numbers...and drumming or making...
- 2010-02-10
- Bill of sale for slaves bought by Bolling Hall from William Alexander.
- 1803-09-05
- Hall purchased the slaves, a woman named Amey and her two children, for $500. Alexander agrees to compensate Hall if the woman is found to have a venereal disease: "in case the said negroe woman Amey has the clap or pox as supposed, I will make up...
- 2012-01-27
- Document granting James Caller power of attorney to reclaim two slaves who had been stolen from Malachi and Mary Murphee of South Carolina.
- 1804-07-05
- Caller was living in Washington County of the Mississippi Territory (later the Alabama Territory) when the Murphees hired him "to take two Negros Namely Remus & Frank which Thomas Bates and others stold away from us." [Original spelling retained.]
- 2010-11-12
- Bill of sale for slaves bought by James Caller of Warren County, North Carolina, from John Murrell.
- 1805-00-00
- Caller purchased ten slaves (male and female, ranging in age from three to forty), a wagon, and ten horses for 900 pounds Virginia money.
- 2010-11-12
- Instructions for obtaining legal proof of bonds held and the value of slaves and horses possessed.
- 1813
- 2009-06-25
- Advertisement for four runaway slaves, submitted by William E. Phillips in Madison County, Alabama.
- 1825-08-05
- In the advertisement Phillips describes each slave's physical appearance and disposition. He offers $50 for their return and discusses their motives for leaving: "The subscriber thinks it probable that some white person has been instrumental in...
- 2009-08-24
- Statement and two letters regarding the delivery of two slaves from South Carolina to Alabama.
- 1829
- The transaction seems to be between Thomas Dugan and Joseph Rivers. In the first letter Dugan writes James W. Goodman of Claiborne, Alabama, asking him to sue Rivers and recover one of the slaves. The statement is signed by all men involved in the...
- 2009-06-25
- List of slaves owned by Bolling Hall.
- 1829
- 2012-01-27
- Bill of sale for slaves bought by James Dellet of Claiborne, Alabama, from Joseph G. Lindsey of Richmond, Virginia.
- 1840-07-22
- Dellet purchased eleven slaves, male and female, ranging in age from two to thirty-three.
- 2009-06-25
- Bill of sale for four slaves bought by Reuben Bennett from E. Butler.
- 1844-06
- Bennett purchased the slaves, a woman and three children, for $1,000 in Perry County, Alabama.
- 2010-11-12
- Advertisement for two captured slaves, submitted by Clark Bobo, jailor of Franklin County, Alabama.
- 1846-03-19
- In the advertisement Bobo describes the slaves and their owner, Rufus K. Flax of Attalla County, Mississippi, to "come forward and conform to the statute of this State in such cases made and provided."
- 2009-08-24
- Bill of sale for two slaves bought by C. B. Hicklin of Monroe County, Alabama.
- 1855-04-03
- Hicklin paid $850 for fifteen-year-old Indianna, and he paid $700 for a twelve-year-old boy named John.
- 2009-06-25
- Statement by Daniel Sampson, a cashier, regarding payment for the hire of four slaves in Mobile, Alabama.
- 1857-05-14
- Sampson discusses the amount due to the slaves' owner and mentions two checks that have been sent from the Southern Bank of Alabama. Though no one is specifically addressed in the message, one of the checks was made out to E. E. Haywood.
- 2009-09-04
- Letter directing Green B. Strother to create a register of the slaves from Madison County, Alabama, who were impressed for duty at Fort Henry in Tennessee.
- 1861-12-28
- Strother is instructed to list the slaves' owners, names, ages, heights, weights, complexions, and values.
- 2009-09-15
- Letter appointing Newton Bradford as overseer for forty slaves selected to serve at Fort Henry in Tennessee.
- 1862-01-06
- The slaves were provided by citizens of Madison County, Alabama.
- 2009-09-15
- Sharecropping contract between Willis P. Bocock and several of his former slaves.
- 1870-01-03
- Bocock owned Waldwick Plantation in Marengo County, Alabama.
- 2009-09-11