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1857 Alabama farmer paid $7.50 for “catching a negro”

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1857 Alabama farmer paid $7.50 for “catching a negro”

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Heading: (1857 Alabama farmer paid $7.50 for “catching a negro” fugitive slave)
Author:
Title: Receipt showing Alabama farmer paid $7.50 for “catching a negro” fugitive slave
Place Published: No place, probably Alabama
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Date Published: Jan. 15, 1857
Description:

Handwritten receipt, Jan. 15, 1857 [No place, probably Alabama]: “receive of Martha nanson Seven dollars and a half for Robert Weir Service rendered in cetching a negro with Hugh G. Weir”. Unevenly trimmed slip, 3 x 7.5 ins.

H.G.Weir was listed in the 1860 Census as a farmer in Prairie Bluff, Alabama. Weir himself owned 16 slaves, 7 female and 9 male, ranging in age from an infant to a man of 60. Robert, probably his younger brother, then 21, was later a Civil War Sergeant in the Alabama Infantry.

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Unevenly trimmed slip but in very good condition.

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1857 Alabama farmer paid $7.50 for “catching a negro”

Name: 1857 Alabama farmer paid $7.50 for “catching a negro”
SKU: 29072205
Price: 190 USD
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