Dublin Core
Title
Bill of sale (Lucy)
Subject
Slavery--United States
Description
Handwritten receipt from John Pullen to William Crenshaw documenting the sale of an enslaved African-American girl named Lucy for $394.43. 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.”
Creator
John Pullen and William Crenshaw
Source
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/10339/93527
https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/37374
https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/93527
Date
2019
Contributor
ZSR Library, Wake Forest University
Rights
Digital reproductions of this item from Wake Forest University's Special Collections & Archives are made available under an assertion of fair use (17 U.S.C. 107) for noncommercial educational and research purposes only. copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their beneficiaries, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless copyright was signed over to Wake Forest University.
Format
Image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/93521/browse?type=title
Coverage
02-15-1819. Wake County, North Carolina