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Title	PRICE, L.F., ADS
Subject	Slavery
Description	SHH VI:18 Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866 PRICE, L.F., ADS, La Grange, June 11, 1860. Slave sale for $1375 of "a certain negro man named Bill supposed to be about twenty-eight years old and black complexion and a slave for life." 2pp. 8 x 12
Identifier	SHHManuscripts/SHHVI/18/SHHVI_18p1.jpg
Location	SHH\SHH_MULTI_ORIG\SHH_MULTI_ORIG_02\SHHManuscripts\SHHVI
Scope and Content Note	The earliest document (May 24, 1809) concerns receiving a slave called Jess, the transaction taking place in New Orleans. There are descriptions of the hire of slaves belonging to third party owners, recovery of slaves, slave inventories for the sake of evaluating an estate, the sale of a woman named Ester, a promissory note charged against the value of a "good likely young black woman not more than twenty years old", descriptions and valuations for a wide range of monetary compensation depending on the age, complexion, and gender of the individual. The collection concludes with a petition to the court requesting that a colored girl be "bound for a period of eighteen years in exchange for her care and permission to adopt the petitioner's name" dated 1866 which, if granted, would perpetuate the "peculiar institution" beyond the time of emancipation.
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