Legal document, 7.5 x 12, Lawrence County, Alabama, detailing the "Levie on three Negroe Slaves" and "one yellow woman," dated April 6, 1839. In August of 1619, slavery was first introduced in Jamestown, one year before the Pilgrims landed. The practice grew at a rampant rate throughout the agricultural South, and the status of "slave" quickly became legally recognized. It would take over 200 years of bloody revolts, legal acts and finally, the Civil War, until the Thirteenth Amendment was passed in 1865, officially abolishing slavery and acts of involuntary servitude. Front of the document commands that "the goods, chattles, lands and tenements of William B. Jenkins andamp; Nathan J. Galloway late partners by the name of Jenkins andamp; Galloway late of your County, you cause to be made to the sum of of Eight hundred fourteen dollars and 42 cents," going on to list several names to whom the partners are in "said debt, as for their costs in that behalf expended...," signed at the conclusion by Teste, John M. Jackson, Clerk. Bottom half of the front page bears a printed "Bill of Cost," containing two columns of Clerk's Fees and Sheriff's Fees. Penned on verso: "Levied on three Negroe Slaves as the property of William Devan to ,wit, one yellow woman named Nancy and her child Frank and one Negro boy Jim twelve years old April 22nd 1839. The above described property was this day sold...,viz, the woman and her child...for five hundred thirty dollars and the boy...for five hundred and twenty five dollars July 1st , 1839," signed at the conclusion by Sheriff D.W. Valliant. Includes additional penned calculations. Two vertical mailing folds and one central horizontal fold, some light toning and mild show-through from ink on verso, otherwise fine condition.

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