Sale of Slave

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Title: Sale of Slave
Creator: Nathan C. Skinner
Thomas M. Atkins
John C. Dunlap
Description: This document declares the $800 sale of a male slave named Pleasant from Nathan C. Skinner of Stewart County, Tennessee to Jesse L. Ingram of St. Joseph, Missouri on February 22, 1855. Skinner promises that the slave is "sound, healthy, sensible, and a slave for life."
Date: February 22, 1855
Local Subject: African Americans
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
People: Nathan C. Skinner
Thomas M. Atkins
John C. Dunlap
Geographic Subject: St. Joseph, Missouri
Buchanan County, Missouri
Object Type: Legal Document
Owning Organization: Nancy Hillyard Hampton Library and Archival Center
Location: Documents, CH2-DSB Box 4: 14466/620
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