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  • Collection: Enslaved People

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This is a newspaper announcement offering a reward for the capture of Burrel, a man about 21 or 22, described as 6'3" of 6'4" and 180 to 200lbs, and said to have been raised near Tuscumbia, AL. He escaped from near Bethel in Wilcox County, AL.

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This is a newspaper advertisement for the public sale of property that belonged to Henry Williams of Tuscumbia, including enslaved people:
Patience, 42 and her three children William, 10, John, 9, and Matilda, 2.

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This is a newspaper advertisement for the sale of three people by Thomas Hereford:
Jane, about 50;
David, about 50;
George, about 23.

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This is a newspaper advertisement for a trust sale in which people belonging to Robert A. Goodloe were to be auctioned off at Barton's corner in Tuscumbia. The people included:
Jacob, about 40; Jacob's wife Susan, 35; their four children Eliza 11,…

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This is a newspaper ad seeking "twenty negro men" to work as bricklayers for George Ragland in Memphis, TN.

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This is a newspaper article about a man named Bill, who ran away from a plantation in Fulton, MS. Bill's previous owner was Capt. Joshua Cox of Tuscumbia.

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This is a newspaper advertisement for the sale of property, including enslaved people:
Cesar, about 50;
Umphrey, about 50;
Juda, 45;
Polly, 45;
Susan, 10;
Charles, 7.

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This is a trust sale of property that belonged to Thomas S. Hereford that took place in 1841 in front of the C.T. Barton & Brother store in Tuscumbia. Among the people sold:
Davy, an old man
Fanny, an old woman;
George, a young man;
Ellen, a…

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This is a newspaper notice announcing that Cesar, a man of about 40 years old, who had been "hired out" to work at the warehouse and landing in Tuscumbia, had escaped. Cesar was described as being of "copper color" and was well known in the…

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This is a newspaper advertisement for the sale of property, including about 35 enslaved people.
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