Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FREEING A "WHITE WOMAN SLAVE" (SLAVE DOCUMENT.) Manuscript Slave Document, wherein Barbara Wilson frees her "white woman slave" Patsy. One page, folio; docketed on verso. Bath County, VA, 5 January 1822

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Unusual document in that the woman freed is "white." There are recorded instances of poor whites who were slaves in colonial America and early into the 19th century.