Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

. . . Kate has yet three years of her time to serve and the children until of age. I think that she is well worth £50 currency with her children.” Apparently Redick had posted Kate’s surety bonds and she lived in a state of temporary indentured servitude to pay off her debt, at which point Redick was charged with finding employment for her in his home town. The other case was Peggy Kuntz, whose race is not given. The lot includes two receipts relating to her release from indentured servitude, 15 April and 15 June 1800. The first is docketed “Pegg Kuntz’s rct for freedom”: “I have this day received twelve dollars for the residue of my freedom except the bed which with the approbation of my brother I have recd.” Two months later, she signed for the bed and bedding, with an “X.” This would seem to be a similar case to “Negro Kate,” a woman leaving indentured servitude with Redick’s assistance. Also included is Redick’s copy of a printed circular letter from the Pennsylvania abolition society, seeking a census of African-Americans in Pennsylvania (slave and free). It is signed in type by Edward Garrigues and others and dated 30 May 1796. It is worn with water damage on the address panel. We have traced no copies in OCLC, ESTC, or elsewhere. As a whole, these eight documents tell the story of a dedicated worker for abolition on Pennsylvania’s western frontier, including his pivotal involvement in the tragic John Davis case.