Folder 3
Container
Contains 1 Result:
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.
File — Folder: 3
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...
Dates:
Written on December 23, 1852 and registered on January 31, 1853.