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Item Title: SLAVE

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- Excerpts from IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: A SLAVE FAMILY IN THE OLD SOUTH by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger.
- 2006-00-00
- The passages describe the lives and contributions of three freedmen of the Rapier family. John H. Rapier, Jr., was a physician at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. John H. Rapier, Sr., a barber in Florence, Alabama, served as a voter...
- 2009-06-25
- Excerpt from POLITICS AND POWER IN A SLAVE SOCIETY: ALABAMA, 1800-1860 by J. Mills Thornton III.
- 1978-00-00
- This passage includes an excerpt of a letter from Daniel Pratt to Dixon Hall Lewis, written September 21, 1847. In the correspondence Pratt, an industrialist in Autauga County, Alabama, says that he considers himself "a permanent Citizen of this...
- 2009-06-25
- Contract between A. S. Naftel and Franklin Perkins, a freed slave who would be working as a sharecropper on Naftel's land.
- 1869-01-01
- The contract discusses wages and expenses, and also lists rules and regulations that Perkins was to follow.
- 2009-09-11
- Contract for Allice, a former slave, who will be working ten months for N. M. Ruff and William Bonnell Hall of Benton, Alabama.
- 1866-03-01
- The agreement was actually made by Joseph, Allice's guardian. For her work she is to receive $48, rations, and medical care.
- 2009-06-25
- Copy of an agreement between F. M. Thomason and B. L. Smith, regarding the exchange of two slave women.
- 1864-04-09
- Thomason exchanged a twenty-four-year-old woman named Angeline for a twenty-three-year-old woman named Alpha. He then sold Alpha to L. G. Dye for $3,000. This copy of the bill was made on April 26, 1869.
- 2009-06-25
- Receipt issued to Bolling Hall by the enrolling office of Montgomery County for the impressment of Jupiter, a twenty-five-year-old slave worth $3,000.
- 1864
- 2009-06-25
- Voucher issued to John S. Powers of Butler County, Alabama, for the impressment of a slave "to work on Fortifications" for 74 days.
- 1863-11-06
- 2011-11-21
- Deed of gift from Reuben Bennett to his daughter, Sarah Nall, giving her a thirteen-year-old slave named Delia.
- 1863-03-06
- Also included is a certification of the deed by Berry F. Bolling, the local justice of the peace.
- 2010-11-12
- Receipt for the purchase of a slave by J. W. Shomo in Mount Pleasant, Alabama.
- 1863-01-01
- Shomo purchased the slave, a sixteen-month-old child named Abram, for $800.
- 2009-06-25
- Advertisement for a runaway slave, submitted by Horace Summerhill in Lauderdale County, Alabama.
- 1861-07-17
- In the advertisement Summerhill describes the slave's physical appearance and disposition; he suspects that the young man is nearby: "I am clearly of the opinion that Charles is in the midst of our neighbors."
- 2009-08-24
- Record from the Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Cahaba, Alabama, noting the baptism of several slave children and the appointment of four African American men as assistant elders of the congregation.
- 1858-07-04
- 2009-06-25
- Resolution regarding the restoration of Jeffrey, a slave of J. J. Craig, to the Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Dallas County, Alabama.
- 1857-07-21
- Jeffrey's membership had been suspended in 1848 because he was charged "with having been in the habit of visiting one of Mr. B. A. Glasses [sic] negrohouses occupied by a woman of loose character named Phillis."
- 2009-06-25
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by William Bonnell Hall from Joseph A. Weatherly.
- 1856-10-25
- Davis purchased the slave, a fourteen-year-old boy named Jerry, for $1,400 in Lowndes County, Alabama.
- 2010-12-07
- Bill of sale for a slave bought at an auction by Dr. Benjamin Rush Jones.
- 1856-06-28
- Jones purchased the slave, a thirteen-year-old young man named Bob, in March of 1853. He paid $750.
- 2009-06-25
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by C. B. Hicklin of Monroe County, Alabama.
- 1852-02-25
- Hicklin purchased the slave, a thirteen-year-old young woman named Martha, for $700. The transaction was handled by Eckles and Brown at the Lee and Norton auction house, located on the west side of Court Square in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.
- 2009-06-25
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by George N. Gilmer from B. F. Tarvin.
- 1851-02-04
- Gilmer purchased the slave, a twenty-seven-year-old man named Allen, for $1,000 in Lowndes County, Alabama.
- 2009-06-25
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by C. B. Hicklin of Monroe County, Alabama, from M. Harwell.
- 1851-01-17
- Hicklin purchased the slave, a fourteen-year-old young woman named Ann, for $750 in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 2009-06-25
- Advertisement for a captured slave, submitted by Sheriff P. B. Skipper in Henry County.
- 1849-10-16
- In the advertisement Skipper describes the slave and asks his owner, Jackson Lawrence of Russell County, Alabama, to "come forward, prove property, pay charges, and take him away."
- 2009-08-24
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Presley Davis from John A. Stringer.
- 1848-10-02
- Davis purchased the slave, an eight-year-old boy named Pinkney, for $300 in Pike County, Alabama.
- 2009-06-25
- Sheriff's deed for the purchase of a slave by R. D. Gayle at an auction in Clarke County, Alabama.
- 1848-06-05
- Gayle purchased the slave, a four-year-old boy named Blount, for $173.
- 2011-11-16

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