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FSU_MSS_0266_B504_F003_I001edit.pdf
Three manuscript pages of two sharecropping contracts signed by the Winthrops and the contracted individuals with an X over their names. These contracts contain the terms of the annual rent for land such as acreage to be farmed, payment, and type of…

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Legal document emancipating a 14-year-old “Negro slave girl named Betsey Simons”.

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Bill of sale from Savannah, Georgia for the purchase of two enslaved people, Ellen and her child, Caroline

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A Bill of Sale for two female servants (Mary & Charity) sold for $960.00 by Daniel P. Bestor of Sumterville, Alabama, to Col. I. C. Brown on January 9, 1853.

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Handwritten bill of sale from Hartnell Wynne to William Crenshaw for an enslaved African American woman, Ginny, and four children. As articulated on the web site US Slave (http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/12/slave-bill-of-sales.html), “A slave bill…

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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…

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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…

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Bill of sale for Priscilla, sold by Samuel Wakefield of Louisville, KY to Samuel Davis in Natchez, MS. Natchez, home of the infamous Forks of the Road market for enslaved persons, was where many enslaved persons were transported either by boat from…

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A bill of sale from Burke County for a "a certain negro woman slave named Sarah about twenty years old" believed to be Sarah Gudger. Handwritten ink on paper in bound deed book.
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