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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) Manuscript document, suit to recover the price of a slave, after the end of the War. Four pages folio, written on three sides and docketed on the fourth; paper evenly toned; creased where folded; a few short tears at the folds. Hinds County, Mississippi, 1866
a most unusual case brought before the court after the civil war. T.A. Millon and Joseph Inay are being sued by L.J. Grandbury claiming "that Arch, or Archie, a certain Negro boy" sold to him by the defendants was warranted as sound in mind and body, and that he was in fact not, and suffered from dropsy. In this document the lawyers for the defendants seek a dismissal of the case "actio non," meaning that the plaintiff's case was not substantiated. In what is certainly classic Southern tongue-in cheek; their attorneys claim the case is further without merit and again "actio non" because at the time Archie was sold--about the 25th of June of 1865-- "he was delivered from his condition and status of slavery by virtue of a certain Proclamation of A. Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and by virtue of the surrender of the Confederate Military Forces, and by virtue of an ordinance of the Mississippi State Convention of August 1865."
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