Description
“Bill of Sale For Negroes – Ante-Bellum Relic Shows How Slaves Were Transferred.” - - A relic of antebellum days, now in the possession of T. Percy Bryan, secretary of the Gray-Bryan Coal Company, is a bill of sale governing a transaction in which his grandfather, William H. Bryan, sold two slaves to Miss Jane C. Skinner, September 17, 1851.
“Now all men by these presents that I, William H. Bryan of the County of Platte and State of Missouri, for value received the receipt where of is hereby acknowledged and this day bargaining sold onto Jane C. Skinner of the County and state of force said certain Negroes, two in number named Sylvia a girl and her child Dick, the first 19 and the second 1 year old. And I hear by warrant them both slaves for life and defend the title of sad slaves to be good and to be of sound mind and body this 17th day September 1851. William H. Bryan (seal).”Date(s) of Creation
9/17/1851
