(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Colonial slave sale document for a M

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Colonial slave sale document for a "Mulatto boy named Bill, about eight years of age . . ." Folio, sheet, written on one side and docketed on the reverse; signed and witnessed. Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1768

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An uncommon slave sale document from colonial Pennsylvania. James Kennedy of Frederick, Maryland is selling an eight-year-old boy named Bill to John McClellan of Cumberland County Pennsylvania for the sum of thirty-nine pounds, five shillings and eight pence. The Afrolumens Project web-site does not list a "Bill" or "William" among John McClellan's four slaves.