[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript court document related to the sale of an enslaved woman named "Frances," Fayette County, TX, 1857.
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022
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Lot Description
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript court document related to the sale of an enslaved woman named "Frances," Fayette County, TX, 1857.
10pp, 8 x 12 1/2 in. (light soil, creasing at folds, toning). Original seal and binding.
The case of enslaver Edward A. Williams, plaintiff, versus enslaver John Ingram, defendant, heard in the District Court, County of Fayette, before Judge James H. Bell (1825-1892). Williams alleges that the enslaved woman "Frances," who was "of a yellow complexion aged about twenty two years" and was warranted by Ingram to be "sound in both body and mind" at the time of her sale, was "not at the time and date of said covenant sound either in body or mind but on the contrary was then and there diseased disabled and infirm...." Williams seeks from Ingram damages in the amount of $800 which was the price paid for the enslaved woman, as well as an additional $200 "laid out and expended in nursing and taking care of said negro woman...." On 20 May 1857 a jury ruled in favor of the defendant.
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