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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

1860 United States Slave Schedules, Georgia

 Digital Collection
Collection number: 6405C63E-43A2-75BF-4F9A-AF72D44B8828

Box 1: Bill of Sale for Slaves

 Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-1
Scope and Contents Two Bills of Sale for slaves. Both transactions are for Green G. Ford in what was then Baker County and is now Worth County, Georgia. The first in Baker County for the price of $1,920: one woman, Lucy, about 20 years old and a boy, John, about 6 years of age, signed Lucinda Ferguson and Isaac Gillian on January 3, 1837. The second received by Randal McDonald, Adm. in Pulaski County on January 2, 1839 by Green G. Ford of Lee County for the cost of $1,276.00: one woman named Zelpha about 30...
Dates: 1835-1837

Item 21: Slave Shackles, circa 1700's

 Item — Item 21
Collection number: 21
Scope and Contents

Cast iron shackles of the typ eused to restrain enslaved people aboard the lower decks of a ship during the Middle Passage crossing the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. Due to the small size of this set, it was most likely used on a female. One end of the shackle has a ring, which would likely had a chain running through it to chain multiple people together. At the other end is a roughly carved handle.(from description attached to item)

Dates: Usage: circa 1700's