Letter from the firm of Wilkins and Brothers in Petersburg, Virginia, to James Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama.
The writers of the letter want to hire Dellet to collect a debt owed by Jesse Reid, a slave trader: "The said Reid absconds from every place he fines we are pursuing him, he is an artful man & pretends by way of stratagem to transfer his property to avoid justice." A list of the charge...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1657 |