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    TREATMENT OF SLAVES

     

    Food

    "A Virginian"

     

    Clothing

    George A. Avery

    Samuel Ellison

    Lemuel Sapington

     

    Housing

    Lemuel Sapington

     

    Punishment

    John H. Curtiss

    Samuel Ellison

    Rev. Henry T Hopkins

    William Poe

    L. Turner

     

    Labor Conditions

    Gurdon Chapman

    Lemuel Sapington

    William S. Drewry

     

    Sale and Capture

    Slave Auctions

    Slave for Sale

    Slaves Wanted

    Capture

     

    General Treatment

    John Brown

    William S. Drewry

     

    Continue to SLAVE RESISTANCE

    Norfolk & Portsmouth Herald, January 1, 1830

     

    Negroes at Auction.

                                                    The undermentioned slaves not having been sold as

                                        heretofore advertised, at the Court House in Portsmouth, on 

                                        Wednesday, they             WILL BE SOLD,

    This Day, the 1st Jan.

                                        At Tanner’s Creek Cross Roads, between the hours of 12 and 1

                                        o’clock,

    Viz:

    SIPP, aged 21 years; SOLOMON, aged 19, and MARIA, aged 22—

                                        the property of Richard Powell, dec’d,

                                                                                                       William Browne.

                                        Jan 1

                         

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    WILL BE SOLD

    Before the Court House door, in Portsmouth,

    This Day, the 1st Jan.

    at 11 o’clock,

    3 or 4 valuable SLAVES,

                                       belonging to the estate of James Taylor, dec’d,

                                       Terms—Cash.

    At the same time and p lace,

    WILL BE HIRED, for the ensuing year,

    The residue of the Slaves

                                       belonging to said estate, consisting of Men, Women, Boys and

                                       Girls.

                                                                            ARTHUR EMMERSON, Adm.

                                       Jan 1

     

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    This Day, the 1st Jan.

    At 10 ‘oclock [sic] at the foot of the Market House,

    WILL BE HIRED,

    To the highest bidder, for the ensuing year.

    The Negroes belonging to

                                       the Estates of Caleb Boush, Margaret Haynes, and Wm.

                                       Nicholson.

                                                                             WM. B. Laub, Serg’t.

                                       Jan 1