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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) BUSBY, H.S.
“Feby. Aug. Hunting Negro Ben
and Ketching, For Hunting Negro Ben.”
Piece of blue paper, approximately 7 x 8
1
/
2
inches,
irregular edges; creases where folded.
Received payment 2 January 1856
[400/600]
Apparently “Negro Ben” ran off twice, once in February and again in August of 1855. What a great
deal just the few words on this document tell us.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
ALABAMA.
Know all These Present
. . .
Manuscript document 9 x 8
1
/
4
inches,
on faintly lined paper, making Charles
George the legal guardian to “the person
and estate of Julia Hogan a free woman of
color over the age of twenty-one years of
age.” Creases where folded; docketed on
the reverse.
Talladega County, AL, 7 July 1859
[800/1,200]
A most unusual document in which Julia
Hogan, a “free women of color, over the age of
twenty-one” has been given a court-appointed
guardian to look after both her person and her
estate. The latter must have been comfortable to
say the least because the guardian, Mr. Charles
George was given $500 to take care of Ms.
Hogan’s property and person. It is possible that
Ms. Hogan was the slave and mistress of a gen-
tleman who upon his death left her both free
and with an estate. We could find no record in
Talladega County of a Mr. Hogan recently
deceased. It is possible that whoever it was had
a different surname.