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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Pair of deeds for 20 enslaved people sold from South Carolina to Florida. Manuscript Documents Signed by Bradley family members, each one page, about 13 x 8 inches, with docketing on integral blank; short separations at folds. South Carolina, 1 January and 23 November 1854
These two deeds document the sale of 20 enslaved laborers from a South Carolina plantation to the Florida Panhandle. One deed named "Thomas a man, and his wife Sarah, a woman, and their three children, to wit: Lucy, Tom, and Judy." The other names "fifteen Negroes, to wit: "Sam, Cely, Alfred, Delia, Lena, Tilla, Dick, Isaac, Sharper, Elsey, Amy, Andrew, Nancy, Damon, and Daphney."
The sale was made within the Bradley family, who were planters in Sumter County, SC. The patriarch John Bradley had died in 1849. Son John Junius Bradley (1826-1901) had moved further south to Jefferson County, Florida, where his 155 enslaved people made him one of the biggest slaveholders in the state. One of these deeds is from his brother Samuel James Bradley (1827-1869), and the other from his sister Ellen Martha Bradley (1823-1886). Another sister, Emma Theodosia Bradley (1821-1899), witnessed both deeds.
