Letter from Thomas Flournoy of Augusta, Georgia, to Bolling Hall.
In the letter Flournoy says that he is no longer interested in maintaining a plantation, and he asks Hall to purchase some of his slaves: "Lawyers, doctors, & merchants should have nothing to do with plantations & negroes--Overseers are proverbially unfaithful and require as much lookin...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the letter Flournoy says that he is no longer interested in maintaining a plantation, and he asks Hall to purchase some of his slaves: "Lawyers, doctors, & merchants should have nothing to do with plantations & negroes--Overseers are proverbially unfaithful and require as much looking after as the slaves they oversee. I have not time for this--Besides, I dislike the slave driving trade, and would most willingly own none, no not one of them." |
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