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1850 Slave emancipation document, Kentucky

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1850 Slave emancipation document, Kentucky

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Description

Heading: (African American - Slavery)
Author: Turpin, Philip O.
Title: Manumission [Emancipation] of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed.
Place Published: Gallatin County, Kentucky
Publisher:
Date Published: Feb. 11, 1850
Description:

1pg.+ docketing note on verso.

The freed slave, Harris, 50 years old when he was emancipated, was still living in Gallatin County after the Civil War, listing his profession as "farmer" - possibly a share-cropper on the old Turpin plantation. He died - still in Gallatin - in 1891.

Philip Turpin who signed this document attempted unsuccessfully (through Henry Clay) to enter West Point in the 1820s. Instead, he became a physician and secured his future by marrying into the family of the notorious slave-owner Pierce Butler. Many of Turpin's relatives were also slave-owners in Kentucky and Texas.

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1850 Slave emancipation document, Kentucky

Name: 1850 Slave emancipation document, Kentucky
SKU: 71068325
Price: 225 USD
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