Kentucky manuscript legal documents in a suit over ownership of a young female slave and her infant daughter.
by [Slavery]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Folio manuscript legal sheets, 11 pp. plus docketing on final back sheet. Traces of wax in some margins. Paper is browned and aged, some minor creasing at folds, margin hole on a couple of pages, not affecting text; otherwise very good. This is a very complex legal case about the ownership of two slaves. These manuscript documents are signed by the three Constables deposed as witnesses. The testimony is taken at the law offices of Lysander G. Gordon. It seems that an individual who owed people money was forced to give the slaves to a sheriff and were then sold to William Knox in Southern Tennessee. However, it appears that the slaves actually belonged to someone else. These documents try to sort though this mess.
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- Bookseller
- Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106404
- Title
- Kentucky manuscript legal documents in a suit over ownership of a young female slave and her infant daughter.
- Author
- [Slavery]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Kentucky:
- Date Published
- July 13, 1850.
- Keywords
- Slavery. Slave Narrative.
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