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Slave bills of sale

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bradley County (Arkansas) Estate Sale of Enslaved Persons

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1141
Scope and Content Note

Official account, signed by Bradley County Clerk W. H. Wheeler, listing the names of eleven enslaved persons belonging to the estate of James. T. Bragg, the names of the enslavers purchasing, and the price paid. Enslaved persons included in this bill were Marion, Solomon, Jerry, Sterling, Anniea, who was mentioned as being accompanied by an unnamed child, Evilia, Linnifer, Sally, and Marzu, who was also mentioned as being accompanied by an unnamed child.

Dates: 1860

Pleasant M. Osburn Bill of Sale

 Collection
Identifier: MC 677
Scope and Content Note

Contract by Pleasant M. Osburn for the sale of land and six enslaved people, four of whom were children, Patsy age 35, Lucy age 10, Margaret age 8, Erick age 7, Mourning age 25 and Ann age 8 to Wiley Neubury, Clark County, Arkansas, February 12, 1847

Dates: 1847