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• Title: Bill of indictment for theft against a slave belonging to Ritchard Potts, 1839
• Description: Bill of indictment against a slave, by the jurors of the State of Maryland, for receiving and secreting stolen goods from another slave.
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: October Term 1839 The Jurors of the state of maryland for the body of Frederick County in United states [Presaid?] Henry Grace a slave for life the Property of Ritchard Potts Esq for receiving and secreting stolen Goods some time in or about

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• Title: Bill of indictment for theft against a slave belonging to Ritchard Potts, 1839
• Description: Bill of indictment against a slave, by the jurors of the State of Maryland, for receiving and secreting stolen goods from another slave.
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: October Term 1839 The Jurors of the state of maryland for the body of Frederick County in United states [Presaid?] Henry Grace a slave for life the Property of Ritchard Potts Esq for receiving and secreting stolen Goods some time in or about

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• Title: Inventory of land and slaves belonging to James Fullen, 1815
• Description: Inventory of land, property and slaves owned by James Fullen.
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: List of Land lots of ground with their improvements Dwelling houses and Slaves owned by James Fullen on the first day of April 1815 lying and being with in the 1st district of the State of Virginia Viz in the County of Russell one farm on the Rich

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• Description: Petition by the executors of the estate of Edmund Townsend directing the disposition of two female slaves who are the daughters of the deceased.
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: , the real estate and personal property belonging to the estate of said decedent, and whereas, amongst the slaves belonging to said estate, there are two female slaves, named Elizabeth M aged about fourteen years and Virginia aged about eleven years, whom

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• Title: Bill of sale for slave of Thomas Stone, February 4, 1836
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: Natchez 4th Feb. 1836 Received of Mr James Cotton the sum of Eight hundred and fifty dollars for the purchase of a negroe girl named Mariah which I warrant sound and slave for life and likewise warrant the title against the claim of any person

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• Title: Bill of sale for slave of William B. Withers, January 18, 1858
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: whatever and warrant the said negro a slave for life. Jany 18th 1858 Test Elam A. Sherrill John G Withers [Handwritten docketing] Bill of Sale for Dick

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• Title: Special mortgage on twenty two slaves by Francis Duplessis, 1839
• Description: Special mortgage taken by Francis (Francois) Duplessis (b. 1786 in New Orleans) on twenty two slaves. This mortgage, held by the Union Bank of Louisiana, replaces a previous mortgage on thirty one slaves.
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: and sign, in favor of the union Bank of Louisiana a special mortgage [inserted in left margin] on the twenty two slaves hereinafter named and described, to wit: 1. Pierre negroman aged about forty five or fifty years 2. Violet negrowoman aged about thirty

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• Title: Bill of sale for slave of Abraham Brower, September 17, 1805
• Subject: Slave records

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• Description: Invoice for the transport of freight belonging to B. Roach on the steamboat S. S. Prentiss. Freight to be shipped down the Yazoo River includes slaves, tools, and general supplies.
• Subject: Slave records

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• Description: Appraisal of the personal estate of James Ricks filed in Probate Court in Calhoun County, Arkansas. Property listed includes 14 slaves, livestock, farm equipment, and tools.
• Subject: Slave records
• Text: are Not interested Nor of kin to any person interested in the Estate of James Ricks as heir or Legatee, and that we will according to the best of our abilities View and appraise the Slaves and other personal property to us produced Sworn & Subscribed before me

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• Description: Letter describing the recent debate over the reorganization of Kansas, the Fugitive Slave Law, and a vote on the unconstitutionality of the Compromise of 1850.
• Text: slave law in Kansas & Nebraska. Mr. Wade owned it --- like a man & Giddings squirmed. This was in the 24th Sec: of McDunn’s bill for the reorganization of Kansas --- as quoted & acknowledged it is a “flatfooted” fugitive slave law --- it would seem

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• Description: Appraisal of the estate of William Bradford Stover (b. 24 June 1782 in S. C., d. 11 Nov. 1850 in Wilcox, Co., Alabama). Inventory of property includes 41 slaves, livestock, equipment, tools, furnishings, and other effects.
• Subject: Slave records