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Letter, Jourdan Saunders in Warrenton, Va., to David Burford in Dixon Springs, Tenn., 1832 October 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 16
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents Note ALS. 3pp. Discusses Saunders' current activities in the slave trade. Casual description of a public auction "where about 30 valuable negroes were sold." Burford apparently changed his mind twice in regard to a purchase since the October 2 letter because Saunders reveals that Burford placed a second order and then canceled it. Discussion of deaths and disease among a group of enslaved individuals traveling through the south with "29 in the lot, among them 15 likely men, the balance boys,...
Dates: 1832 October 30