Oaths of Jeremiah Pritchett, Norman McKay, and Noah Agee in a runaway slave case.
In these oaths, slave owner Pritchett and witnesses McKay and Agee provide a physical description of Ben, a slave who ran away in April 1835, shortly after being traded to Pritchett by William Sloan. Ben is described as a 35-year-old man weighing between 180 and 190 pounds, with scars on his face a...
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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/6724 |