Day 2: Early & Historic Americana

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[SLAVERY] 1843 Virginia Slave Bill of Sale

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Document signed by Spencer Jones. Wythe County, Virginia, 20 March 1843. 1 page, 8 x 7 7/8 in. Docketed to verso.

A Virginia indenture for the sale of a young enslaved teenager named Clayborn. The bill of sale was between Spencer James (1812 - 1869) and William Bourn, both of Wythe County, Virginia. James paid $450 to Bourn for "a certain Negro boy named Clayborn about fourteen years of age."

[African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]

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Day 2: Early & Historic Americana

[SLAVERY] 1843 Virginia Slave Bill of Sale

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