Ben, Alabama, 1851
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- Ben, Alabama, 1851
- Description
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From the handwritten diary of Basil Manly Sr., explaining his reasoning for selling this enslaved man to Joseph W. Turner and Howell D. Peterson for notes and deeds totaling $900 plus interest.
Manly was a plantation owner in Tuscaloosa County. At the time, he was also president of the University of Alabama. - Transcript
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Sale of Ben
Sat. Feb. 22. Under a full persuasion that my negro boy, Ben, brought by me from North Carolina last summer, requires a different kind of discipline from that which he will get while I continue to own him, and that, in short, his faults are likely to be such that he might become valueless to me, I have this day sold him to Jo. W. Turner and Howell Dr. Peterson; and taken their obligations as follows -- Jos. W. Turner gives me a note for $450; and to secure the payment he has executed to Mr. D. J. Slade for my benefit a deed in trust on the lots on which his carriage shop and blacksmith's shop are situated - together with his tools. -- H. D. Peterson has given me a note on Jos. P. Turner for $304.37 of Dec. 31. 1851 -- on which there is a credit of $30 paid on Feby. 18. 1851, also his due bill for $22.39 and his note for $150 - The notes are made payable on the 5th day of March, AD. 1852. If paid, I will get $900. for Ben, with interest on that from this day. -- - Date
- 22 February 1851
- Coverage
- Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
- Site pages
- Control & Resistance
- Media
Ben 1851