Bill of sale (Jacob)

Bill of sale (Jacob)

Slavery--United States

Handwritten bill of sale for an enslaved African-American boy named Jacob who was around eight years old. As articulated on the web site US Slave (http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/12/slave-bill-of-sales.html), “A slave bill of sale was a contract between a slave owner and a potential buyer detailing the selling of a slave. These contracts stated the location of the slave owner, the name and location of the buyer, the amount the slave was sold for, and the gender, name and age of the slave. In the event a female slave was sold, the seller would usually state in the slave bill of sale that the new buyer would have full rights and ownership of any future children the slave might have. These slave bills of sales represented a loop hole for slave owners and buyers to continue the internal trading of slaves even though the Mid-Atlantic slave trade had officially ended on January 1, 1808.”

William Crenshaw

William Crenshaw Papers, ZSR Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/37374
https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/93526

2019

ZSR Library, Wake Forest University

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08-16-1825, Wake County, North Carolina