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Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Louisiana Boykin Receipt, 1863 October 6

 File — Box 4250.001, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a note from Louisiana A. Boykin, acknowledging the receipt of $1500 from Thomas Boykin in payment for an enslaved man named Buck, who was about twenty-three years old, "sound and healthy in Body & mind except Hernia." The transaction took place in Columbus, Georgia.
Dates: 1863 October 6
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4250, Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States

William Law Legal Brief, circa 1830

 File — Box 4250.001, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents A legal brief by Georgia attorney and state agent William Law describing the status of two cases involving seized enslaved persons, circa 1830. One case pertained to Spanish claims surrounding three vessels, the Poletena, the Tentativa, and the Syrena.
Dates: circa 1830
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4250, Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States