[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for enslaved woman named "Chany" and her infant child "Edith." Orange County, NC, 8 March 1856.  

2pp, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (toning and creasing at folds, later pencil notations at docketing). Docketed on verso.

Enslaver John J. Allison sells to enslaver Obediah Page, Jr., for the "sum of eight hundred and seventy five dollars...one slave a negro woman named Chany and her child named Edith woman aged about twenty one years and child about seven months...." The bill of sale further warrants that "...the said negro slave Chany "to be sound and free from constitutional disease or defects." The bill of sale was endorsed and signed in 1858 by Thomas J. Utley and Hinton Hudson as clerk of the county court and county register, respectively.

Dr. John J. Allison (1820-1910) of Orange, North Carolina, is listed in the 1850 US Federal Census Slave Schedules as enslaving 8 men, women, and children, while an Obediah Page (unclear if Page senior or junior) of Wake County, North Carolina, is listed as enslaving 12 individuals. The Wilmington Daily Dispatch reported in January 1866 that Obediah Page, Jr. (1822-1866?) was killed by his own son's hand after he had assaulted both the mother and son in a drunken rage.