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- Advertisement for two captured slaves, submitted by Clark Bobo, jailor of Franklin County, Alabama.
- 1846 March 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."
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from James F. McKee in Wilmington, North Carolina, to the police of Mobile, Alabama.
- 1831 November 3
- In the letter McKee warns the men of a new slave in Mobile who had been banished from North Carolina because of "seditious conduct" the year before: "While acting as Magistrate of Police last August my attention...was called to the circulation of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by John Butterworth of Petersburg, Virginia, from Robert Spiers.
- 1818
- Butterworth purchased the slave, a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old young woman named Fanny, for $500 on April 6, 1818. On the back of the receipt are two further transactions involving Fanny: first, she was transferred to Green Wood on April 18, and...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Augustine Burge of Petersburg, Virginia, from Robert Pitcher.
- 1815-1818
- Burge purchased the slave, woman named Mary Ann, for $400 on November 25, 1815. On the back of the receipt are three further transactions involving Mary Ann: first, she was transferred to John Butterworth on April 6, 1818; then she was sold to...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Questionnaire prepared by H. C. Nixon to gather information on slavery in Alabama.
- 1912
- The questionnaire was sent to former slaveholders and former slaves. It asks for details about dwellings and possessions; clothing and food; occupations and typical workdays; money earned by slaves for their own use; family life; entertainment;...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- D. M. McIntosh's response to H. C. Nixon's questionnaire about slavery in Alabama.
- 1913 April 1
- McIntosh describes the following aspects of slavery as he observed them in Wilcox County, Alabama: dwellings and possessions; clothing and food; occupations and typical workdays; money earned by slaves for their own use; family life; entertainment;...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Leonidas Howard in Mulberry, Alabama, to Bolling Hall in Montgomery.
- 1862 February 2
- In the letter Howard explains why the shoes Hall ordered have not been delivered yet: "Our workman which filled all orders for fine work was contrary to a contract made with his owner taken from us before the expiration of the term for which we...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from James H. Fisher, near Selma, Alabama, to Benjamin Hale, at Geneva College in New York.
- 1850 July 29
- In this letter Fisher discusses his A.M. degree from Geneva College, his recent appointment to teach at a church school in Tuscaloosa, his current job of tutoring the sons of the planter C. H. Cleveland, sickness at the plantation, and worms that...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought at an auction by Dr. Benjamin Rush Jones.
- 1856 June 28
- Jones purchased the slave, a thirteen-year-old young man named Bob, in March of 1853. He paid $750.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Dr. Benjamin Rush Jones from Eliza Jones.
- 1836 October 28
- Jones purchased the slave, a fifty-year-old woman named Rachel, for one dollar.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by David Tate from Sophia McComb.
- 1819 March
- Tate purchased the slave, a fourteen-year-old young woman named Flora, for $500 in Monroe County of the Alabama Territory.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from W. B. Ray, church clerk of the Baptist Church of Christ at Antioch in Montgomery County, Alabama.
- 1859 December 18
- In the letter Ray confirms that Mary, a slave of the McQurter family, is a member of the church in good standing.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Receipt for the purchase of a slave by J. W. Shomo in Mount Pleasant, Alabama.
- 1863 January 1
- Shomo purchased the slave, a sixteen-month-old child named Abram, for $800.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Presley Davis from John A. Stringer.
- 1848 October 2
- Davis purchased the slave, an eight-year-old boy named Pinkney, for $300 in Pike County, Alabama.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by C. B. Hicklin of Monroe County, Alabama, from M. Harwell.
- 1851 January 17
- Hicklin purchased the slave, a fourteen-year-old young woman named Ann, for $750 in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by C. B. Hicklin of Monroe County, Alabama.
- 1852 February 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.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for two slaves bought by C. B. Hicklin of Monroe County, Alabama.
- 1855 April 3
- Hicklin paid $850 for fifteen-year-old Indianna, and he paid $700 for a twelve-year-old boy named John.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by David Cobb from Curtis Hooks.
- 1818 Feburary 7
- Cobb purchased the slave, a young man named Claiborn, for $500 in Huntsville, Alabama.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Copy of an agreement between F. M. Thomason and B. L. Smith, regarding the exchange of two slave women.
- 1864 April 9
- 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.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- 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
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection

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