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Lot 510: 1851, Slavery Bill of Sale

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Lot  510: 1851, Slavery Bill of Sale
<b>Black History</b><hr><b>Selling Sarah For $400</b>

<b>1851 Bill of Sale Warranting That Sarah Is Sound in Mind and In Good Health.</b>
Manuscript Document, by which Caleb M. Hubby sells a girl, Sarah, to Abner Stokes; 6.5' x 6', Milan County, September 15, 1851. Choice Extremely Fine; closely trimmed margins and a cut-and-pasted last 3-lines suggest this document was condensed by the Court. In full: 'Know all men by these presents that I, Caleb M. Hubby of the State and County afore said for and in consideration of Four Hundred Dollars to me paid by Abner Stokes the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have bargained and sold unto Abner Stokes one negro girl named Sarah which girl I warrant sound in mind and in good health to the best of my knowledge. In witness whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal...'

Subsequent records show that Sarah, far from being in good health, was suffering from a disease from which she died; Stokes then sued Hubby for fraud.