Description
Missouri - Old Murphy, as he calls himself, a wealthy planter of Platte County (Missouri), said that he had always done his work by slave labor until the last year, and that slavery was all right; but it cost more than free labor, and therefore he had sold his slaves, and many of his neighbors were doing the same. He also said that every week 2 or 3 runaways were arrested in his neighborhood.
(Researcher's note: "Old Murphy" is not named but Jacob, Joseph, and Peyton/Payton Murphy were known Platte County enslavers.)Date(s) of Creation
3/20/1858
