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Advertisement for runaway slaves of C.P. Young, Columbus, Tennessee, 1835. George, about 55 years old, had a wife at Randal Robinson's near the Nashville Camp Ground. Willis, about 26, had a wife who formerly belonged to the widow Pughs, 7 miles west of Nashville. Jacob ran away with George and Willis, was recaptured and escaped three months later. He had connections to enslaved people belonging to Mrs. Cantrell, on Manscoe's Creek, Sumner County, Tennessee.
Date: 1835-06-29; Paper: Nashville Banner & Nashville Whig
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Harriett Wallon of Madison County, Alabama applies for a pension as the widow of Manson Wallon, who served in the 17th US Colored Troops. Collin Moore, Justice of the Peace, states that in September of 1862, he performed the wedding ceremony which united Harriett and Manson. The wedding took place on the plantation of Harriett's former slaveholder Miss Kate Moore. Witnesses Mary Gardner and Jackson Moore also attest to Harriett and Manson's marriage.
This document breaks through the 1870 brick wall by identifying Kate Moore as the slaveholder of Harriett Wallon. | |
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Anita Wills' second book, Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family is a Non-Fiction Narrative of African American History, It is available through Amazon.com, and will soon be available at retail stores, Alibris and Books in Print. The book is written from a Historical and Genealogical perspective, and weaves together the lives and times of Ms. Wills ancestors. This entry was submitted by Ms. Wills who has graciously allowed us to publish this excerpt.
One of the ancestors chronicled in Pieces of the Quilt, is Great-Great Grandmother Leah Ruth-Warner, who was born in Guinea West Africa, in 1818. She was kidnapped and enslaved in 1830, by Dutch Traders (according to her oral testimony). She stated that they were taken five miles down the coast and held on a Dutch Ship. The year was 1830 and selling African Slaves was against the law. The traders got around the law by taking their cargo to Bermuda to be seasoned. Leah and the others were eventually taken to South Carolina and sold. Leah was purchased by Robert Ruth of Beaufort District South Carolina. He was not a large Plantation owner, and had no more than seven slaves. By the 1850 most of the slaves he owned belonged to Leah. She had several children by him, and by her husband Jack Warner. When Leah became hard to handle, she was sold away from her children, to Hilton Head SC. Her son Samuel (Anita Wills' Great Grandfather), never forgot the image of his mother on the Auction Block... | |
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