719

(SLAVERY)

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(SLAVERY)
<b>719. SLAVERY</b> Interesting D.S. 13pp.; legal folio, Brazonia County, TX, Dec. 1855, a portion of the proceedings of a particularly complicated legal case in which two partners in an extensive plantation with a workforce of over 70 slaves sell their property after a series of financial reverses, to a set of creditors, Rice, Adams & Co., from whom they have borrow large sums of money to keep the plantation afloat. In doing so, however, long before the plaintiffs had borrowed money from the above-mentioned creditors, at least one of the partners in the plantation had already used the plantation itself as collateral to secure an earlier loan to buy equipment and other supplies! In this particular document, the firm of Rice, Adams & Co. are asking to be repaid for the original loan made against the plantation. A very convoluted case, in any event. Chipping and toning to bottom edge of sheets, otherwise very good, bearing the original pink ribbon seal.<b> $100-150</b>