Letter requesting respite for Godrey, an enslaved boy.

Identifier

Q0000133362_Q0000133363

Title

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Type

text

Creator

McKinstry, Alexander

Date

1858 March 8

Description

A letter from Judge Alexander McKinstry to Governor A.B. Moore requesting that the execution of an enslaved boy, Godfrey, be stayed for thirty days.

Format

letter

Language

English

Place

Mobile County (Ala.)

Publisher

Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)

Contributor

Julia Brock

Relation

Q0000133365_Q0000133368

transcription

Mobile Mch 8th 1858

For His Excly., A B Moore

Dear sir:

Will you please respite the execution of the slave boy Godfrey for say 30 days? until I can see the opinion of the Supreme Court.

If you will telegraph to the sheriff I will see that it is attended to.

Yours,

Alexander McKinstry

He is sentenced to be executed on the 12th of March.

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Letter to Judge McKinstry

For respite

[Alabama Department of Archives and History stamp]

Subject

Slavery--Alabama--History--19th century, Alabama--History--19th Century, Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873.

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