Nancy, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, 1845
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- Nancy, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, 1845
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From the handwritten diary of Basil Manly Sr., recounting the purchase and previous ownership of this enslaved woman.
Manly was a plantation owner in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. At the time, he was also president of the University of Alabama. - Transcript
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[page] 355
1845
Purchase of Nancy
Tues. May 20. This day I went up to the house of Jesse Latham, living near the 14 mile post, on the road leading to Centreville by the residences of Rev. Wm. S. Meek, Hardy Clements, &c and purchased from him (Latham) a negro woman by name Nancy - of yellow complexion. She is now between 40 & 45 years of age. -- I wish her as a nurse for my younger children. The price was $200. in specie. I paid $210 in Ala. currency - and am to adjust the actual rate of exchange, as this time, on some future day. --
The woman was born in Charleston, was in the family of Col. Gadsden, when he was murdered in the streets of Charleston by two Irishmen, brothers, by the name of Martin & Michael Toohey. -- She was sold by his son, with a gang, (Thos. N. Gadsden) the year of a remarkable eclipse of the sun (total) occurring on a Sunday afternoon. -- She was taken to Morgan County, Georgia, & there has gradually worked her way over to Ala. She was a nurse in the family of Capt. D. H. Bingham, Engineer, & was taken by the Sheriff for his debts, & sold. A man named Howard, living in Fosters' Settlement, bought her. On his death, not long after, Latham his brother in law bought her; & took her over to Maplesville, or the neighborhood. The past winter, he moved to the place of his present residence. I know not how this purchase is to turn out. -- - Date
- 20 May 1845
- Coverage
- Charleston County, South Carolina; Morgan County, Georgia; Chilton and Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama
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Nancy 1845