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HIGHLY UNUSUAL AND QUITE TOUCHING (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) ARKANSAS. Jack Sherman, the owner of a slave and her ten children. defends them against the accusation of having burned down his neighbor's house. Three long blue folio leaves, written on all six sides; docketed with further notes on the reverse of the last page; some toning and light soil to outer leaf. Pulaski County, AR, 1858
A highly unusual and touching case, the history of which is as follows: Mr. Jack Sherman comes before His Honor Judge Andrew S. Fulton, 'humbly complaining. . . .Your orator some two or three years ago he was the owner of a family of slaves consisting of a woman named Catherine and her ten children (he names them all) About that time the house of your orator's neighbors was destroyed by fire, and suspicion fell on your orator's slaves.' Several of the slaves were arrested and tried before a justice. They were acquitted 'but there being much prejudice and ill feeling existing against them in the neighborhood, that I was urged to send the slaves out of Pulasky County. That your orator was in no condition to sustain or such importunities; that he was about seventy five years old when this affair took place, and unfortunately, on the very morning after the fire occurred, your orator suffered a very grievous injury. . .' It seems that while recuperating from his injury, having fallen down a flight of stairs, he was staying at a friend's house, when his slaves were taken to be sold out of the county. It would seem that he was trying to recover all or some of them. Difficult to read. should be seen.
