SLAVE PRICES IN TEXAS IN 1836
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SLAVE PRICES IN TEXAS IN 1836
A.L.S. of one Robert Stephens, 2pp. legal folio, Short Mountain, TX., Aug. 8, 1836, penned to his friend Charles Cabany in Haelgreen, Ala. Opening with social content, Stephens then moves to slaves: "...the great city here is Tenes [?]...some is growing there some [?] to General [Edmund P.] Gaines on the western boundaries...I want to say what can be had for Negroes there now what men women and boy fifteen years old are worth. They are very high here now, likely men is worth $1,000 if I can make I would trade a little down there. There is sometimes a chance to pick up one here I think I could for about 700$, tell Briten Sanders to keep as my Fish as he can for can't all ways be there to attend to him...". Folds, very good.
A.L.S. of one Robert Stephens, 2pp. legal folio, Short Mountain, TX., Aug. 8, 1836, penned to his friend Charles Cabany in Haelgreen, Ala. Opening with social content, Stephens then moves to slaves: "...the great city here is Tenes [?]...some is growing there some [?] to General [Edmund P.] Gaines on the western boundaries...I want to say what can be had for Negroes there now what men women and boy fifteen years old are worth. They are very high here now, likely men is worth $1,000 if I can make I would trade a little down there. There is sometimes a chance to pick up one here I think I could for about 700$, tell Briten Sanders to keep as my Fish as he can for can't all ways be there to attend to him...". Folds, very good.
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