Manuscript document signed by mark by James Luke. Wilcox County, Alabama, 24 May 1849. 1 page, 4to. Witnessed by Justice of the Peace A.B. Scarborough. Docketed to verso.
A legal document where James Luke was seeking payment of $10 for "Negro Hunting" from the estate of Stephen Palmer.
Wilcox County, Alabama, had one of the highest slave populations in the antebellum south. James "Jim" Luke (1798-1880) himself enslaved several individuals, 9 in 1840 which swelled to 36 by 1860.
A rare manuscript document related to the practice of slave hunting.
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