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Collection Reference Number GLC09344
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1846 
Title Slave sale
Date April 1846
Document Type Broadside; Business and financial document
Content Description "A Schedule of the negro slaves, the separate property of Obedience Aurelia Runnels, wife of Hiram G. Runnels," lists 29 slaves by name, age, sex and complexion. This may have been produced in anticipation of an imminent duel between Hiram Runnels and Mississippi legislator Volney Howard so that her property would not be affected if her husband should die.
Subjects Slavery  African American History  Women's History  Duel  Slave Life  
Theme African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Agriculture
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859