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Description
Receipt "for a Negro Woman named Permelia," 21, from John Susan (name unclear) to A.M. Holland for "eleven hundred dollars" ($1100 USD), January 24, 1859. Location not stated.
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Rec'd of A.M. Holland Eleven Hundred Dollars for a Negro Woman anmed Permelia which Girl I warrant sound in body and mind and free from all incumbrances
Jany 24/59
(signed) John Susan(?)
Said Girl is about Twenty one years of age
Creation Date
1-24-1859
Keywords
receipt, slave sale, slave, woman, girl, Permelia, bondage, slavery, A.M. Holland, John Susan, 1859
Resource Identifier
080425-09
Date Digital
9-2016
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
American Studies | Appalachian Studies | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | History | History of Gender | Labor History | Social History | United States History | Women's History | Women's Studies
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
en-us
Recommended Citation
Holland, A. M. and Susan, John, "Receipt for sale of Permelia, a woman. January 24, 1859." (1859). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 324.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/324
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