?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) Manuscript Legal Deposition, given by A. K. Tribble and relating to the death of a slave impressed for service to the military of the Confederate States. One page, folio; usual folds, bottom portion cleanly torn off along fold and easily repaired; Signed by Tribble and a court official; docketed on verso. New Kent County, VA, 12 January 1864
Tribble gives testimony indicating that the slave Ephraim had been in the serivce of the Confederacy, building fortifications on the coast of South Carolina where he became sick and died, "That I took charge of Ephraim with others and had him under my charge from the time he left home until he died . . . that said Ephraim was placed under the care of Doctor Wray . . but died from the disease then and there contracted . . . The owner of Ephraim has brought suit in this case to receive some compensation for the loss of his slave."
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