Document for Purchase and Sale of a Female Slave - A Freed Slave Purchases His Wife, Written on December 23, 1852 and registered on January 31, 1853.
Scope and Contents
Single folded sheet 9 1/2 x 15 inches (unfolded) and written in ink on three sides in four separate hands. Catherine M Folwell, widow of Nashville, Tennessee sells a slave named Jane Johnson, "aged about twenty five years" for six hundred dollars to Dow Johnson, of Boston, Massachusetts. Jane Johnson was to be delivered to Rev. Abiel Abbott at Cincinnati, Ohio to be sent on to Francis B. Fogg of Boston, and then presumably to be reunited with Dow. A poignant document of slavery, freedom and reunion.
Dates
- Creation: Written on December 23, 1852 and registered on January 31, 1853.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.
Extent
From the Collection: 1 Folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from John William Pye Rare Books September, 2011. Pye was a Trinity Alum, class of 1970 and member of the Watkinson Library Board of Trustees.
Repository Details
Part of the Watkinson Library - Archival Collections Repository
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