[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Two bills of sale for enslaved persons in Georgia, including a scarce Sheriff's Bill of Sale, 1852.
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Two bills of sale for enslaved persons in Georgia, including a scarce Sheriff's Bill of Sale, 1852.
Manuscript bill of sale for six enslaved persons, Sumter County, Georgia. 27 December 1852. 1p, 8 x 12 in. Docketed on verso.
Enslaver Simeon Hammack warrants that he was paid by enslaver William H. Hammack the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars for "a negro woman named Louisa, about twenty-five years of age (in value one thousand dollars), a negro boy named Munroe, about eleven years of age, of yellow complexion, in value (seven hundred dollars), a negro boy Jim, about eight years of age (in value six hundred dollars), a negro girl named Sally, about six years of age, (in value four hundred dollars), a negro girl named Cassander [sic], or Peep, about sixteen years of age (in value eight hundred dollars,) also a negro boy named Tom, about nineteen years of age, (in value one thousand dollars,) all of said six negro slaves I warrant to be sound and well in body and mind, and to be slaves for life."
[With:] Partially printed Sheriff's Bill of Sale for "one negro woman about 35 or 40 years old, by the name of Affa and this day sold at public sale or outcry...." Macon County, Georgia. 6 April 1852. 1p, 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Witnessed and signed by Sheriff Davis Gammage.
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