Selling the Enslaved

Receipt for sale of Harriet and Joshua, January 24, 1815

Receipt for sale of Harriet and Joshua, January 24, 1815

 

Received January the 24th 1815 of Mr. William Skinner, one hundred and fifty dollars in full for a Negro woman called Harriet and boy child called Joshua sold him by me.
John Duhamel

[spelling and punctuation have been modernized]

This 1815 receipt records the sale of a woman named Harriet and a child named Joshua.



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