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Collection Reference Number GLC05838
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1860s 
Title Document of sale for 3 slaves to be transferred from Louisiana to Texas
Date 30 October 1863
Author Kilgore, Legrand (fl. 1863)  
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description Sale from Kilgore to E. W. Rogers. The slaves were Bill (25), Patsey (33) and her son John (2). (Through a punctuation error the document seems to say that Kilgore fathered the boy John.)
Subjects African American History  Slavery  Slave Sale  Women's History  Children and Family  Texas  American West  
Place written Ellis County, Texas
Theme African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Women in American History; Children & Family
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945